In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.


God-kings of War

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.


the Unquiet Past

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.


a Nest of Vipers

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.