In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.