In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

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


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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

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

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