In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.