In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

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


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

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