In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.


God-kings of War

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.


the Unquiet Past

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.


a Nest of Vipers

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.