In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.


God-kings of War

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.


the Unquiet Past

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.