In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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


the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

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

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