In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

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

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.


God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

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

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.


the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

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

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.


a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

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

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.