In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

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


God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

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


the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

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


a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

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