In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.