In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.


God-kings of War

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.


the Unquiet Past

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.


a Nest of Vipers

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.