In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


a Nest of Vipers

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

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.