In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

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


God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

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.