In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

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

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

God-kings of War

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

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

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

the Unquiet Past

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

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

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

a Nest of Vipers

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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