In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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