In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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