In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

God-kings of War

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

the Unquiet Past

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

a Nest of Vipers

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.