In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.


God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.


a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.