In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

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

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

God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

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

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