In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

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

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.


God-kings of War

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.


the Unquiet Past

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

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

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.