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.

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

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

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

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.

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

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

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