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.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

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


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

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