In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.