In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


a Nest of Vipers

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.