In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

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

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


God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.