In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.