In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

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

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

God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

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

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