In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

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


God-kings of War

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

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


the Unquiet Past

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

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


a Nest of Vipers

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

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