In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.