In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.


God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.


the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.


a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.