In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

God-kings of War

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

the Unquiet Past

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

a Nest of Vipers

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.