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.

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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

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

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

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