In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

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

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

God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.

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

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