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.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.


God-kings of War

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

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.


the Unquiet Past

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

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.