In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

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

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.


God-kings of War

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

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.


the Unquiet Past

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

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.