In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.