In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

God-kings of War

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

the Unquiet Past

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.