In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.


God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.


the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.