In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

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

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

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

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.