In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

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

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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


God-kings of War

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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


the Unquiet Past

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

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

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

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

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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