In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

a Nest of Vipers

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.