In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.


God-kings of War

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

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.