In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.