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.

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

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

God-kings of War

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.