In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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Blood & Sex

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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


God-kings of War

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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