In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.


God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.


the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.


a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.