In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.