In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

God-kings of War

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

the Unquiet Past

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

a Nest of Vipers

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.