In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.


God-kings of War

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

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.