In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.