In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.