In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

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


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

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


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

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