In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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

the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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

a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

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