In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.