In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

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

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