In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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

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

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

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

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

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

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.