In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.


God-kings of War

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.


the Unquiet Past

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.


a Nest of Vipers

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.