In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

God-kings of War

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

the Unquiet Past

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.