In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.