In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

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

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.