In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

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


God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

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.