In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.