In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.


God-kings of War

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

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.