In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

God-kings of War

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

the Unquiet Past

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

a Nest of Vipers

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.