In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.