In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.