In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.


God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.


the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.


a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.