In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.