In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.


God-kings of War

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.


the Unquiet Past

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.


a Nest of Vipers

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.