In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.


God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.


the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.


a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.