In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.