In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

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

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

God-kings of War

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

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

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

the Unquiet Past

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.

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

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.