In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.