In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

God-kings of War

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

the Unquiet Past

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

a Nest of Vipers

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.