In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.


God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.


the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.