In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

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


God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

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


the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.