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.

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

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.


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.

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

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.


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.

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

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.