In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

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


God-kings of War

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

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


the Unquiet Past

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

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


a Nest of Vipers

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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