In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.