In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.