In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.


God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.


the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.


a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.