In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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

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

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.