In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.