In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

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

God-kings of War

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

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.