In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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.

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


the Unquiet Past

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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.

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.