In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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

God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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