In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.