In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

God-kings of War

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

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

the Unquiet Past

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

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

a Nest of Vipers

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

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.