In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

God-kings of War

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

the Unquiet Past

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

a Nest of Vipers

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.