In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

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


God-kings of War

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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


the Unquiet Past

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

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


a Nest of Vipers

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

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