In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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