In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

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.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.