In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

a Nest of Vipers

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.

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

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.