In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

God-kings of War

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

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

the Unquiet Past

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

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

a Nest of Vipers

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

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.