In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

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

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


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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