In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.