In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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


God-kings of War

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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