In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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Blood & Sex

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


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.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.