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.

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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.

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

the Unquiet Past

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

a Nest of Vipers

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.