In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

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

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

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.

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.