In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.