In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

God-kings of War

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

the Unquiet Past

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

a Nest of Vipers

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.