In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.


God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.


the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.


a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.