In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

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

God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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