In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

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


the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

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


a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

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