In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

God-kings of War

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

the Unquiet Past

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

a Nest of Vipers

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.