In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.