In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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

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

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.


God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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

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

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.


the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.


a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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

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

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.