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.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

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


God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

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