In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.


God-kings of War

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

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.