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.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.


God-kings of War

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

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.


the Unquiet Past

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

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.