In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

God-kings of War

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

the Unquiet Past

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

a Nest of Vipers

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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