In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

God-kings of War

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

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

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

a Nest of Vipers

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.