In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

God-kings of War

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

the Unquiet Past

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

a Nest of Vipers

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.