In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

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.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.