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.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.