In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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