In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

God-kings of War

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

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

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.