In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

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

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

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

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

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

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.