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.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

God-kings of War

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

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.