In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

God-kings of War

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

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.