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.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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


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.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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