In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.