In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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

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


God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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

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