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.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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


God-kings of War

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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