In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

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

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

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

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.


the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

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

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.


a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.