In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

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

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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