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.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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