In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.


God-kings of War

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

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.


the Unquiet Past

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

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.