In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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