In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

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

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.


God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

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

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.


the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

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

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.


a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

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

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.