In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.


God-kings of War

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.


the Unquiet Past

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.


a Nest of Vipers

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.