In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

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

God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

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

the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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

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.