In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

God-kings of War

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

the Unquiet Past

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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

a Nest of Vipers

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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