In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

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

God-kings of War

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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

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.