In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.