In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.


God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.


the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.


a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.