In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

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


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

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


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

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