In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.


God-kings of War

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

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.


a Nest of Vipers

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.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.