In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.