In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.


God-kings of War

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.


the Unquiet Past

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.