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.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

God-kings of War

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

the Unquiet Past

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

a Nest of Vipers

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

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

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.