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.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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

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

God-kings of War

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

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

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