In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.