In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.