In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

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

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

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

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

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

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.