In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.


God-kings of War

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

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.


the Unquiet Past

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

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.