In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.


the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.


a Nest of Vipers

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.