The Oracle Bible
ORACLE
THE SHOW
Oracle is a premium fantasy drama set in a world where truth is governed, belief is enforced, and certainty is the ultimate form of power. At the center of the story is the most influential institution of the ancient world, one that claims the authority to interpret fate itself. As rival factions rise and fall around it, Oracle follows rulers, priestesses, and rebels whose lives are shaped by the institution's prophecies. Those deemed worthy are elevated. Those who question the system are erased. Survival depends not on strength or bloodline, but on who controls the story everyone else is forced to believe.
OPENING STATEMENT
Imagine you're ordinary and safe. Not important. Not hunted. Just a teenage girl with a family, a routine, a future that belongs to you. Now imagine you're taken from that life and delivered to the most powerful city in the world, a brutal place that survives by controlling truth and selling certainty. Your value is no longer who you are. Your value is what you can see. You become holy overnight. You become property overnight. You become a symbol inside a machine.
LOGLINE
When a teenage girl is forced into a sacred institution that sells prophecy to the highest bidder, she must decide whether preserving stability is worth the cost of human choice.
SUMMARY
Oracle is a sweeping, character driven epic set in 550 BCE but built unmistakably for the present. It asks a simple and dangerous question. Who gets to decide what is true for everyone else.
In Delphi, prophecy isn't mystical guidance. It's policy. Certainty is sold as protection. Ambiguity is treated as threat. Those who can see the future don't rule freely. They're managed, translated, and owned.
The series follows Ariadne Kastraki, a teenager pulled from rural obscurity and thrust into Delphi, the most powerful institution on earth. Overnight, Ariadne becomes sacred in public while losing all autonomy in private. Her value is no longer who she is, but what she can see. Sacredness isn't freedom. It's a role inside a machine.
Oracle isn't a story about power being seized. It's a story about power being accepted, one compromise at a time, until the line between survival and complicity disappears.
THE WORLD
Delphi isn't simply a temple or holy city. It's the ancient world's first global institution, a fusion of religious authority, financial power, and political arbitration, functioning like a combined World Bank, Vatican, and diplomatic court.
The Temple of Apollo governs through three interlocking branches.
1. The Oracle
The public face of prophecy. Consultations where kings and nobles purchase certainty to justify wars, alliances, and succession.
2. The Bank
One of the earliest large scale financial systems, where debt, legitimacy, and prophecy intertwine. Empires don't rise through faith alone. They rise through leverage.
3. The Order of Mysterium
The hidden arm of the system. Keepers of suppressed knowledge, erased histories, and dangerous relics. They protect the machine by controlling what the public can never know.
On prophecy days, Delphi becomes a spectacle of excess and devotion. Kings, generals, merchants, and pilgrims flood the city to buy certainty. The city promises order and meaning while quietly deciding who will suffer so the system can endure.
Beyond Delphi's marble order, something quieter is moving. A rebellion that doesn't seek credit or followers. Temple outposts go dark. Relics disappear. Treasuries are burned while gold is left untouched. Priests vanish without spectacle. Led by a female commander in a silver mask, the rebellion understands that what the Temple fears most isn't exposure, but consequence.
WHY NOW
We live in an age obsessed with prediction. Algorithms tell us what we will buy, who we will vote for, what we should fear, and what comes next. Certainty is sold as safety. We trade agency for reassurance and call it progress.
At the same time, truth itself has fractured. Endless information streams and manufactured certainty have eroded any shared sense of reality. People are asked to make constant judgments without ever being given ground to stand on.
Oracle dramatizes the cost of that pressure. This isn't a show about ancient prophecy. It's a show about modern systems that promise order in an age of noise, and quietly narrow human choice in the process. It asks whether stability purchased through control is survival, or simply a slower form of collapse.
THE ENGINE OF THE SERIES
Oracle is structured around a central contradiction. If you could see the future clearly, and you knew that speaking it would fracture the world, would you still believe truth is sacred. Or would you learn to carry the lie.
Each season explores how systems built to protect humanity gradually demand its surrender. Every prophecy saves someone and sacrifices someone else. Every controlled truth preserves stability at the cost of agency. These tradeoffs aren't abstract. Wars are fought with interpretation as much as armies.
SEASON ONE THESIS
Power isn't taken. It's accepted.
And the cost is always paid by someone else.
THE CENTRAL QUESTION
Was Delphi the greatest spiritual authority of the ancient world, or the most sophisticated control system ever built.
Oracle isn't interested in whether prophecy was real. It's interested in how it was used.
CHARACTERS
ARIADNE KASTRAKI
Ariadne arrives in Delphi wanting nothing more than to survive. She's observant, empathetic, and quietly resilient, the kind of person who absorbs other people's pain before her own. Since childhood, she's experienced visions she doesn't understand and has learned that speaking about them invites danger. Silence has been her protection.
When she's chosen as an Oracle, Ariadne discovers she's frighteningly capable of bearing unbearable knowledge. Her flaw isn't ambition but compassion. She believes that if she carries enough of the burden herself, others might be spared. Over the course of the season, she learns that silence doesn't remain neutral. It becomes strategy. Then authorship. By the end of the season, Ariadne has accepted power she never wanted and begun to fear she may already be past the point of choosing differently.
MINOS KASTRAKI
Minos believes decency and effort should be enough. He thinks of himself as principled, reasonable, and fair, and for most of his life that belief has protected him from reckoning with power. Delphi dismantles that belief piece by piece.
He isn't corrupted by greed but by responsibility. Every compromise he makes is justified by love for his sister and the promise of safety. He trades dignity for leverage because he believes leverage is the only language institutions respect. By the end of the season, Minos understands that power doesn't punish immorality. It punishes isolation. What haunts him isn't what he's done, but the growing certainty that there may be no clean way forward for anyone he loves.
SELENE
Selene survives by being indispensable. She learned early that devotion fades but systems endure, and she aligned herself with the system completely. Disciplined, composed, and relentlessly prepared, she believes stability is the highest moral good.
Selene doesn't see herself as cruel. She sees herself as realistic. She fears not chaos, but irrelevance. Being replaced would mean that everything she endured to secure her position was meaningless. Over the season, Selene consolidates enormous power, only to realize that belief can't be commanded in the same way authority can. By the end of the season, she remains formidable but cornered by the very machine she perfected, willing to destroy what she once protected rather than fade quietly into history.
LYSANDER
Lysander is the translator between raw vision and usable politics. He believes unmanaged truth would tear civilizations apart, and he's dedicated his life to containment, timing, and interpretation.
Precise, disciplined, and visibly exhausted, Lysander knows exactly what his translations will unleash, which cities will burn, which families will be spared, which lies will be received as mercy. He signs off anyway. Over the season, he comes to understand the terrible clarity of his role. He doesn't prevent catastrophe. He assigns it. He continues not because he's blind, but because stopping would mean admitting his entire life has been built on calculated sacrifice.
EPIALES
Epiales treats prophecy as infrastructure. He seeks predictability, not reverence. From the shadows, he engineers outcomes to eliminate surprise and prevent uncontrolled shifts in power.
He doesn't claim holiness and doesn't seek recognition. His danger lies in his conviction that stability justifies sacrifice. Epiales believes that if truth is released without control, the world collapses. To him, prophecy isn't divine insight but a tool for shaping behavior before people realize they're being guided. Every choice he makes is framed as protection. Every protection leaves casualties he believes history will forgive.
CALISTA
Calista has learned that being underestimated is a form of camouflage. She uses charm, indulgence, and distraction to move unnoticed while watching everything.
When the First Lady dies, Calista doesn't rage. She remembers. She catalogs. She follows patterns no one else wants to see. Over the season, she loses status, freedom, and protection, but gains clarity. She no longer believes justice arrives through exposure or punishment. She believes it survives through memory. By the end of the season, Calista becomes dangerous precisely because she doesn't need to act yet. She only needs to outlast the lie.
KASSANDRA
Kassandra equates obedience with virtue and certainty with safety. Raised close to the Temple's inner mechanisms, she learned that submission is how order is maintained and meaning is earned.
As Ariadne's page, devotion becomes personal rather than doctrinal. Protecting Ariadne feels like love. Over time, that protection turns into management. Her faith fractures not through cruelty, but through truth. By the end of the season, Kassandra is no longer a believer or a rebel. She's a witness, carrying knowledge she can't yet use and loyalty she no longer fully understands.
THEMESTOKLEIA
Once Delphi's greatest Oracle, Themestokleia was believed to have died in a temple fire a decade earlier. In truth, she survived and disappeared into the margins.
She now leads a quiet, disciplined rebellion that removes infrastructure rather than seeking spectacle. Her goal isn't exposure but consequence. Themestokleia believes the system can't be reformed because it was built on containment from the start. She's spent years preparing Ariadne's arrival, not to save her, but to force a reckoning. To Themestokleia, liberation isn't gentle. It's destabilizing. And it always costs more than anyone wants to admit.
KING CYRUS
Cyrus grew up marked for death by a prophecy he never asked for. That knowledge shaped him into a ruler who distrusts certainty and reveres choice.
Unlike Delphi's leaders, Cyrus doesn't believe the future should be predicted or managed. He believes it should be chosen and then faced. His rise threatens the Oracle not because he seeks domination, but because he proves another way of governing is possible. What unsettles him is the growing realization that liberation may demand more force than he wants to use, and that refusing prophecy doesn't mean escaping its consequences.
PILOT STORY
The series opens with a mythic vision, a fractured mosaic of Gaia, Apollo, and the forging of fate. Fire, serpents, and gods locked in an ancient struggle over who may shape the future. Within it stands Themestokleia, Delphi's greatest Oracle, delivering a warning meant for one girl alone before she burns in ritual fire.
Ariadne jolts awake among pilgrims crossing a violent sea, the vision clinging to her like a wound. Her brother Minos presses for meaning. Ariadne denies it. She's learned that speaking about visions invites danger, and silence feels safer.
Inside the Temple, First Lady Larissa breaks protocol during prophecy and speaks directly of a king rising in the east and Delphi's fall. Hours later, she's found hanging in her chambers. Officially, her death is processed as ritual completion. Unofficially, it's a coup. Selene moves to consolidate power. Lysander moves to stabilize meaning itself. The Temple closes its gates.
Stranded pilgrims panic. On the mountain road, bandits attack. Minos sacrifices their remaining money to protect Ariadne. Bells echo through the mountains as rumors spread that the Oracle is dead. An elder whispers the last time this happened, Themestokleia. The name chills the crowd.
Weeks later, Selene is crowned First Lady and Larissa's death is reframed as holy and peaceful. When the gates reopen, Ariadne and Minos enter Delphi and are led beneath the Temple past forgotten symbols of serpents and goddesses. Ariadne touches a sealed door and is pulled into a vision of the city burning, Selene triumphant, her family dead, and a king from the east destroying the Temple. She collapses and finally admits the truth. She has visions.
In the Temple's hall, kings demand prophecy. Lysander announces the selection of a new Third Lady will be fast tracked. In desperation, Minos pledges Ariadne as tribute. The Temple accepts her. Minos is dragged away. Ariadne is escorted into the tribute wing. As the door closes, she stares at a serpent crest on the wall. The machine has accepted her.
SEASON ONE ARC
Season One follows Ariadne's induction into the Oracle and the slow seduction of complicity. She learns the difference between seeing truth and being allowed to speak it. Silence first feels like mercy, then becomes strategy, and finally turns into poison. Each choice protects someone in the moment and costs her something she can't recover.
Running parallel is the rise of King Cyrus in the east, a ruler who rejects prophecy entirely and governs through choice rather than certainty. His refusal to outsource the future threatens Delphi more than any army ever could.
Inside the Temple, suppressed histories begin to surface. Investigations start quietly. Archives contradict public memory. Power consolidates even as legitimacy rots from within. The system doesn't crack under attack. It decays through exposure.
The season ends with revelation. Ariadne learns that the fragments of her dead aunt aren't hallucinations. Themestokleia is alive and has been shaping events from the margins. Ariadne also uncovers the deeper truth beneath the Oracle itself. The system was built on containment. Something older than Apollo. Older than prophecy. Gaia, buried and bound to make certainty possible.
LONG TERM VISION
Oracle is designed as a multi season saga that escalates through consequence. As buried forces push back, the series doesn't trade one god for another. It doesn't replace order with chaos or prophecy with freedom. It explores what happens when humanity can no longer outsource responsibility to any system at all.
The end state isn't utopia. It's plurality. A world that's messier and more alive, where the future is no longer owned, predicted, or sold. Only chosen.
WHAT ORACLE PROMISES
A world audiences want to live inside. Characters whose choices cost something real. Mythology that interrogates power instead of worshipping it. Fantasy that entertains, challenges, and lingers.
At the center is Ariadne, a girl who never asked to decide the future, forced to carry the knowledge that once certainty is broken, someone still has to live with what comes next.
Oracle isn't asking what will happen.
It's asking who will bear the weight of choosing.