In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

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

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.


God-kings of War

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.


the Unquiet Past

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

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

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.


a Nest of Vipers

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.