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.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

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.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

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.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

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.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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