In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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


the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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


a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.