In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.