In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

God-kings of War

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

the Unquiet Past

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

a Nest of Vipers

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.