In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.