In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

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


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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