In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

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

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


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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