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.

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

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.


God-kings of War

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.