In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.