In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

God-kings of War

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.