In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.


God-kings of War

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.


the Unquiet Past

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.


a Nest of Vipers

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.