In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

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.