In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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

God-kings of War

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

the Unquiet Past

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

a Nest of Vipers

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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