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.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

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