In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.