In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

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

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

God-kings of War

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

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

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