In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

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.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.