In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

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


the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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


a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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.