In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.