In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
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.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


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.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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


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.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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


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.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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