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.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

God-kings of War

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

the Unquiet Past

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

a Nest of Vipers

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.