In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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