In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

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

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

God-kings of War

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

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

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

the Unquiet Past

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

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

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.

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

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.