In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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


God-kings of War

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

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