In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

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

God-kings of War

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

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