In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.