In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.


God-kings of War

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.


the Unquiet Past

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.