In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.