In a Wicked Age

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On this page, you'll find various Oracles for use with Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age.

Contents 1 Official Oracles 2 Translations of Official Oracles 3 Fan Oracles 4 Wanted Oracles 5 Meta-Oracles

[edit] Official Oracles

As these are the game creator's original work, please don't edit them here; instead, make a new Oracle below that has your ideas in it.

• The Four Oracles - Vincent's own official random generators
• Original Art, Grace, and Guts Oracle
• Blood and Sex Oracle - A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.
  
• God Kings of War Oracle - A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.
  
• The Unquiet Past Oracle - The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.
  
• A Nest of Vipers Oracle - A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.
  

[edit] Translations of Official Oracles

Italian:

• Oracolo: Sangue e Sesso - Una capitana brigante, alla macchia, con le sue fidate guardie.
  
• Oracolo: Re-dèi di Guerra - Un genio di fiamma, imprigionato in uno specchio d'ottone.
  
• Oracolo: L'Inquieto Passato - Il consesso degli orchi, mostri e folletti di certe rovine.
  
• Oracolo: un Nido di Vipere - Un ricco sacerdote mercante con molte influenze politiche.
  

German:

• Orakel: Blut und Sex - Eine untote Sirene, die die Liebestollen in tödliche Gefahr führt.
  
• Orakel: Gottkönige des Kriegs - Ein furchtbarer und vernichtender Hinterhalt.
  
• Orakel: Die rastlose Vergangenheit - Ein Schwarm Jagdvögel mit scharfen Schnäbeln, gerissen, furchteinflößend, und ihr Meister.
  
• Orakel: Eine Schlangengrube - Ein junger Witwer, blind vor Zorn, dessen wunderschöne Frau von einem Nebenbuhler mit Zauberer getötet wurde.
  

Spanish:

• Oráculo: Sangre y Sexo - Una joven muchacha, inexperta pero astuta y con un sagaz juicio de carácter.
  
• Oráculo: Reyes-Dioses de la Guerra - La llegada de aliados inesperados e improbables, en la oscuridad.
  
• Oráculo: El Pasado Intranquilo - El alma de un hechicero muerto, buscando un renacer ventajoso.
  
• Oráculo: un Nido de Víboras - Un conjurador que necesita sangre para atraer a sus groseros espíritus.
  

[edit] Fan Oracles

Got an Oracle? List it here! Please see 'discussion' tabs for details on the creator's vision for the Oracles.

• Anime Oracle - An old and wise sensei refuses to teach a brash youth
  
• Battlestar Galactica - with alternate rules for activating a Cylon Sleeper
• British Intelligence Oracle - An exclusive London card club, used as a front for money-laundering.
  
• Casablanca Oracle - 10 of Spades - Swarms of beggar-children, swirling through the crowded streets.
  
• Cascadian Folklore Oracle - A younger brother, poet and prophet
  
• Clutch Oracle - A dead man resurrected, his mind reeling from the world beyond death, comes home to find his wife in bed with the tax collector.
  
• Conan Oracle - The distant stone walls and towers of a city the sight of which surprises explorers.
  
• Demon City Blues Oracle - A book wrapped in human skin.
  
• Don't Rest Your Head Oracle - The country schoolmarm, whose black eyes reveal her true nature
  
• Doctor Who Oracle -
  
• Elder Scrolls: Mephala's Web Oracle - A map leads to the overgrown crypt of an ancient warlord.
  
• Encounter-a-Day - A room where everything turns invisible, including the treasure and guardian therein.
  
• Exalted: Age of Sorrows - A dragon-blooded prince, seeking a wife.
  
• Félix Fénéon Orcale
• Final Fantasy Oracle - A caravan, thick with many races, famous for its myriad chocobos.
  
• Firefly Oracle - A bar full of patrons, robbed by a group of women.
  
• Gorillaz Oracle - A scarred degenerate, lifted above by the lustful hands of his many willing concubines...
  
• Harrow Oracle - The Owl: Nature's power, blessed and cursed in the same moment…
  
• Heavy Metal Fantasy Oracle - A circle of stones atop a barren hill; a border-marker between rival tribes.
  
• Hellboy BPRD Oracle - A rend in the fabric of reality, emitting dark and precious energies.
  
• Hold Steady Oracle - Taking off their clothes, screwing in the surf and going out to shows.
  
• In A Wicked Diner: Tom Waits Oracle - A man, tormented by voices, prepares to hang himself from a hotel balcony.
  
• Land Between Two Rivers Oracle - J Spades - A wheel that will not stop turning.
  
• Mario Oracle - A queen bee and her hive of loyal servants are overrun by rampaging insects.
  
• Mirrorshades Oracle - An honest cop driven to desperate means.
  
• Modern Occult Oracle -
  
• Mouse Guard Oracle - An old house on a sandy beach, silently guarded by crabs.
  
• Paranormal Spy-Thriller Oracle - A chopper downed in enemy territory, its passengers dead or injured.
  
• Pirate Oracles - Sailing the Spanish Main
  • Pirate Oracle - Letters of Marque and Reprisal - 3 of Hearts - Flotsam and jetsam, washed ashore after a sea-battle.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - Cutlass and Dagger - 3 of Spades - The dark and silent First Mate, greedy for gold.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - Black Sails on the Horizon - 9 of Spades - An area of shoals, known to rip the bottom out of any ship larger than a sloop.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - All Ashore - 4 of Clubs - Deep caverns, where the Aztecs once hid their gold from the Conquistadors.
    
• Planescape Oracle: Sigil - Wicked tales from the City of Doors - A factotum turns stag and a purge sweeps the faction's membership.
  
• Pulp Oracles - "Welcome to the Dirty 30s"
  • Noir Oracle - Down These Mean Streets - A war veteran, suffering from blackouts and memory loss, accused of rape and murder.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - High Adventure in Exotic Locales - An ancient pendant, its riddle a key to secret treasures.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - Weird Science - An airfield, fully equipped with warplanes.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - I Love A Mystery - A sigil-ring, bearing the shape of a black-widow spider.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - Rip-Roaring Twenties - A captain, young and bold, at the head of a fleet of rocket-planes.
    
• Rifts Oracle - Marauding tribes of vampires, seeking blood-slaves and pillage
  
• Samurai Oracle: Tales of mythic Japan - The lord-abbot of a mountain fastness, in search of immortality.
  
• Shadowrun Oracles - Official Oracles translated
  • Flesh and Metal Oracle - A penthouse, stylish and luxurious, tended by a strong Dwarf woman and her strong husband.
    
  • Corporate Wars Oracle - In progress
• Shakespeare Oracle - A pair of lovers, from warring clans, destined to end their families' rivalry
  
• Space Opera Oracle - A colony of refugees in an asteroid belt
  
• Spelljammer Oracle - 3 of Diamonds - Naive and glorious, a seagoing galleon filled with its worlds heroes jumps among the stars in order to save new worlds.
  
• Superhero Oracles
  • Superhero Oracle - Eight of Yellow: The sign on the building read CONDEMNED, but inside they met.
    
  • Superhero Oracle - Modern - 11S - The hostile takeover of an powerful, international corporation by a shadowy entity.
    
• Talislanta Oracle - A Saristan caravan, setting up an impromptu fair to cover a dark secret.
  
• Tribe 8 Oracle - 4 of Clubs – A jingoistic Junker with a head full of dreams of military glory, pressing for a pre-emptive strike against the Tribes.
  
• Vista Heights Oracle - Spades - 4: She's a stubborn and proud detective, which is why she's on the DA's shit list.
  
• Warhammer 40,000 Oracles - Dark Millennium
  • Warhammer 40,000 Oracle - Heresy - 8 of Spades - The ruins of an ancient civilization that revered the Chaos Demons as gods.
    
  • Warhammer 40,000 Oracle - There Will Be War - Jack of Hearts - Troops who have entered battle seeking nothing but their own deaths, to absolve their dishonor.
    
• Western Oracle - The bank, where every business in town keeps it's money -- robbed by masked outlaws.
  
• The Wire Oracle - Clubs - King: A late night walk along the edge of the harbor.
  
• Wuxia Oracle - A fox-spirit, tricking and deceiving everyone she meets.
  
• Amber Oracle - 4 of clubs - A substance found in Shadow, having mystical properties in Amber.
  

[edit] Wanted Oracles

A place for Oracles in preliminary development, or a place to list Oracles you hope somebody else is brave enough to tackle for you.

• Anime Oracle - Mecha - in the tradition of Gundam, Evangelion, Macross, etc.
• Arabian Nights Oracle
• Coen Brothers Oracle - A dead end street where the lover and his mistress have moved in together
  
• Deathstalker Oracle - An aristocrat, well trained in weaponry and martial arts, as befits his station.
  
• Dune Oracle - In the spirit of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic.
• Dying Earth Oracle
• Earthsea Oracle
• Fading Suns Oracle
• Final Fantasy Oracle - inspired by all the Final Fantasy videogames.
• Glorantha DragonPass Oracle
• Gothic Horror Oracle - Hammer Horror, Antonio Margheretti, and Mario Bava...perhaps a bit of Elvira as well (please contribute elements from any cheesy horror flix you subject yourself to)
• Lovecraftian Horror Oracle
• Modern Romance Oracle
• New Wave Oracle
• Night of the Wicked Dead Oracle - inspired by all zombie-filled survival horror movies and games out there.
• Norse Oracle - Wandering Skalds and Völvas, Jarls ruling at the mercy of their subjects, the King of the Gods, under false name, drinking with the common folk
• Sicilian Blood Oracle - stories of the Mob, glamorized or gritty
• Star Trek Mission Oracle
• Sword and Planet Oracle - in the tradition of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, Jandar of Callisto, Dray Prescott, etc.
• Unknown Armies Oracle

[edit] Meta-Oracles

• Fantasy Oracle Maker - It'll never be as good as the Four Oracles, but it's fun to watch whole Oracles pass by.
• Pulp Oracle Maker - Because Meta-Oracles are cool.
• Pirate Oracle Maker - To be ready for 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.
• IAWA Oracle Oracle - A trigger happy crew member who forgot the loot in favor of shooting folks up.
  
• Fantasy oracle compilation