In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

God-kings of War

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

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

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

the Unquiet Past

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

a Nest of Vipers

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.