In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.


God-kings of War

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.


the Unquiet Past

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.


a Nest of Vipers

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.