In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.