In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

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


God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

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


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

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


a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

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