In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.


God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.


the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.


a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.