In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

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

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

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

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

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

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

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

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.