In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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