In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.