In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.