In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.


God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.


the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.


a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.