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.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

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

God-kings of War

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

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

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

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

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