In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.