In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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

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.