In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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


the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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


a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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