In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

God-kings of War

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

the Unquiet Past

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

a Nest of Vipers

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.