In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

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


God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

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


the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

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


a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

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