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.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.


God-kings of War

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.


the Unquiet Past

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.


a Nest of Vipers

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.