In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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

God-kings of War

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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