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.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

God-kings of War

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

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

the Unquiet Past

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

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

a Nest of Vipers

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

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.