In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

God-kings of War

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

the Unquiet Past

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

a Nest of Vipers

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.