In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

God-kings of War

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

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

the Unquiet Past

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

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

a Nest of Vipers

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

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.