In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.