In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.