In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

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

God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

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

a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

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