In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.


God-kings of War

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.