In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.