In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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