In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.