In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.


God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.


the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.


a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.