In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

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

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

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

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

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

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

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

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.