In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.


God-kings of War

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

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

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.