In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.