In a Wicked Age
four oracles


entries...


anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

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

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.