In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

God-kings of War

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

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.