In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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