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.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

God-kings of War

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

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

the Unquiet Past

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

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

a Nest of Vipers

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

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.