In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.


God-kings of War

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

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.