In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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

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.

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.