In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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