In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

God-kings of War

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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.

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