In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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


God-kings of War

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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


the Unquiet Past

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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


a Nest of Vipers

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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