In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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