In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

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


God-kings of War

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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