In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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