In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

God-kings of War

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

the Unquiet Past

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

a Nest of Vipers

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.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.