In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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