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.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

God-kings of War

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

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

the Unquiet Past

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

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

a Nest of Vipers

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

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.