In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.