In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.