In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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