In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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

God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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

the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

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

a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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