In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

God-kings of War

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

the Unquiet Past

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

a Nest of Vipers

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.