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.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

God-kings of War

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

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

the Unquiet Past

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

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

a Nest of Vipers

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

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.