In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.