In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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


God-kings of War

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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


a Nest of Vipers

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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