In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.


God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.


the Unquiet Past

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.


a Nest of Vipers

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.