In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.