In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.


God-kings of War

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.


the Unquiet Past

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.


a Nest of Vipers

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.