In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

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

God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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