In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.


God-kings of War

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.


the Unquiet Past

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.