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.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

God-kings of War

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

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

the Unquiet Past

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

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

a Nest of Vipers

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

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.