In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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