In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.