In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.