In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

God-kings of War

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

the Unquiet Past

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

a Nest of Vipers

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.