In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

God-kings of War

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

the Unquiet Past

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

a Nest of Vipers

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.