In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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


God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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


the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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


a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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