In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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


God-kings of War

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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


the Unquiet Past

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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


a Nest of Vipers

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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