In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

God-kings of War

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

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.