In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

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

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

God-kings of War

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

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

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