In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.


God-kings of War

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

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.


the Unquiet Past

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

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.


a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.