Brazen Wolfe Tabletop

Tusicka Ignate

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The night drew to the close with the city guard being called to instil order again, however it was the four diviners, the portent Quartet, who when walking amongst the gathered crowed instilled the calm across the masses. The party found a inn to stay in shortly after and due to the uncertainty within the city after the failed great divination they got a god price too.

It was morning when they descended the stairs to the ground floor of the Wondering Minstrel Inn where a woman in a red cloak was describing them in great detail to the innkeeper. As they made a noise on the stairs both her and the innkeeper looked at them with mixed expressions. While the innkeeper looked at them as if they were the carriers of a terrible plague the woman in a red cloak had the opposite; as if they held the promise of a cure.

‘Ah, just the people I was searching for. Innkeeper would you bring these fine people breakfast and what ever else they desire to eat or drink as I will be buying them a meal.’ she said as she pointed towards one of the few tables in the Inn. As they sat down the woman revealed herself to be Tusicka Ignate, the current Diviner of Fire and the one who was assisting the High Oracle last night in the ritual. She wore a small cloak that draped around her shoulders and a near dark charcoal colour tunic that looked quite ordinary. Her auburn hair seemed to glow as the light from a nearby window caught the edges of her hair. She was not exactly young but she had a youthful appearance that concealed her age well.

As they were brough forward plates of food and drink at their request and a purse filled with coins handed to them she looked at each of their faces in great detail. ‘Divination is a funny thing. There are a lot of influences when divining the future which is contrary to the belief of the majority of people in this city.’ she paused to sip on a mug of hot tea. ‘But there are generally a few things that stand out. Peoples faces, an article or shape of clothing and a place is generally enough to tie together the dancing flame with a prophecy.’

‘In this case when I searched for an answer I saw your faces down the the little perfect imperfections as well as exactly what you are wearing now. I saw the Innkeeper, the tavern and this very meal. Things being so perfectly predicted is reserved by prophecies given by the gods, not something conjured from a brazier.’ she paused again to sip from her tea.

‘So the question I have is. Why would my divination reveal you to me and in such detail if you were not either to blame for the current predicament or the ones to unravel what is going on.’ she waited and watched their faces for a moment with an amused smile. ‘Naturally I believe you are the ones to help unravel what is going on.’ she looked towards the innkeeper who was pretending to be busy and doing a lousy job of concealing her eaves dropping. With a few quietly whispered syllables Tusicka formed a glowing orb of energy around them that disappeared after a few heart beats.

‘I have shrouded what I am about to say so no ears, eyes or otherwise can hear what I am about to reveal to you. There is a foul plot afoot and I believe someone in the temple is stopping the oracles divination, interfering with the flow of magic so that our divinations are wrong. When I saw your faces this morning it confirmed that the temple is no longer the locus of power that it was, or should be. No, I conjured the ritual that led me to you quite a way away from the temple.’ she paused to look over at the Innkeeper who was still busy listening.

‘Magic is a fascinating thing. For everyone it is freely given as part of their lives. Intervention from serious harm, a dash of luck when gambling or simply finding one who matches your soul. Everything we do in life has an element of magic with it. But when you give yourself to the temple the world, the planes stop interfering with your life. You become wholly accountable for your own luck. I believe us meeting is a mix, my own interference with my luck and the natural luck of you being in the right place at the right time. I hope you can help me locate the truth at the temple as it seems not even the quartet or the Oracle herself is able to bend luck to our will until the interference is dealt with.’

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