In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

God-kings of War

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

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

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

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.