In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.


God-kings of War

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

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

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

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.


the Unquiet Past

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

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

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

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.