In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.


God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.


the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.


a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.