In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous.

God-kings of War

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics.

the Unquiet Past

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body.

a Nest of Vipers

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.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves.