In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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.