In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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

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