In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

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

God-kings of War

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

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

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

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

a Nest of Vipers

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

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.