In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.