In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

God-kings of War

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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