In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

God-kings of War

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

the Unquiet Past

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

a Nest of Vipers

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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