In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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


God-kings of War

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

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

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