In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

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.