In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.