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.

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

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

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.