In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

God-kings of War

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

the Unquiet Past

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

a Nest of Vipers

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.