In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

God-kings of War

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

the Unquiet Past

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

a Nest of Vipers

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.