In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.


God-kings of War

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.


the Unquiet Past

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.


a Nest of Vipers

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.