In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

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

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

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

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

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

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.