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.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

God-kings of War

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

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

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.