In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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