In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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