In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.


God-kings of War

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.


the Unquiet Past

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.