In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.