In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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