In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.