In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.