In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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

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

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.


God-kings of War

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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

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

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.


the Unquiet Past

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

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

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

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.


a Nest of Vipers

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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

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

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.