In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

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

God-kings of War

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.