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.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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


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.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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