In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.