In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

God-kings of War

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

the Unquiet Past

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

a Nest of Vipers

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.