In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.


God-kings of War

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.


the Unquiet Past

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.


a Nest of Vipers

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.