In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

God-kings of War

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

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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.