In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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

God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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