In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.