In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

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


God-kings of War

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

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