In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious 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.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.