In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.