In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.


God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.


the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.


a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.