In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

God-kings of War

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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