In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

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


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

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


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

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