In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

God-kings of War

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

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

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.