In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

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

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

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

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


a Nest of Vipers

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

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.