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.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

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


God-kings of War

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

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


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.