In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.