In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.