In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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.

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


God-kings of War

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

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.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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.

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