In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.


God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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


the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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


a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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