In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.


God-kings of War

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.