In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

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

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

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.