In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.


God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.


the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.


a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.