In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

God-kings of War

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

the Unquiet Past

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

a Nest of Vipers

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

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

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.