In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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.

God-kings of War

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

the Unquiet Past

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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.