In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.


God-kings of War

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.


the Unquiet Past

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.


a Nest of Vipers

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.