In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.


God-kings of War

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

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

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.