In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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

God-kings of War

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

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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