In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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

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


God-kings of War

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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

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