In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

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


God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

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


the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

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


a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

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