In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

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

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

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

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

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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

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

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.