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.

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

the Unquiet Past

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.