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.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

God-kings of War

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

the Unquiet Past

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

a Nest of Vipers

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

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.