In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.