In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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


God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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


the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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


a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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.