In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.


God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.


the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.


a Nest of Vipers

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.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.