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.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.