In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

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

God-kings of War

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

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

the Unquiet Past

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

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

a Nest of Vipers

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

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