In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

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

God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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

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