In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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