In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

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

God-kings of War

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

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

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