In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

God-kings of War

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

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

a Nest of Vipers

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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