In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

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

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