In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.

God-kings of War

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.