In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.


God-kings of War

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.