In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.