In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.

God-kings of War

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.

the Unquiet Past

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.

a Nest of Vipers

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.