In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.