In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
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.

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

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.