In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.