In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.