In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

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

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

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

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

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

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.

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

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.