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.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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


God-kings of War

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

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

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

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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