In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.