In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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