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.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

God-kings of War

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

the Unquiet Past

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

a Nest of Vipers

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.