In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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


God-kings of War

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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


the Unquiet Past

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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