In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.


God-kings of War

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.


the Unquiet Past

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.


a Nest of Vipers

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.