In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

the Unquiet Past

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

a Nest of Vipers

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.