In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.