In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

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

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.