In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.