In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.