In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.


God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.


the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.


a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.