In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.


God-kings of War

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.


the Unquiet Past

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.