In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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