In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

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

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.


God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

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

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.


the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

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

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.


a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

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

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.