In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

God-kings of War

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

the Unquiet Past

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

a Nest of Vipers

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.