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.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

God-kings of War

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

the Unquiet Past

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

a Nest of Vipers

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.