In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.