In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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