In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

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


God-kings of War

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

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