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.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

God-kings of War

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

the Unquiet Past

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

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.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.