In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.


God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.


the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.


a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.