In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.