In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.