In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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