In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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