In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

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

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

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

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

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

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

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

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

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

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

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

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.