In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.


the Unquiet Past

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.


a Nest of Vipers

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.