In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

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

God-kings of War

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

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

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