In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

God-kings of War

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

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

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.