In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

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

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

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

God-kings of War

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

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

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

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

the Unquiet Past

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

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

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

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

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

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

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.