In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

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

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