In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.