In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.