In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.


God-kings of War

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

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.