In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.