In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

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

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

God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

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

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