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.

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

God-kings of War

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

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.