In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

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

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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

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

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

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

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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.

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

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.