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.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

God-kings of War

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

the Unquiet Past

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

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.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.