In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

the Unquiet Past

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

a Nest of Vipers

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.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.