In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.