In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

God-kings of War

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

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.