In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.