In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

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


God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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


the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

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