In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

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

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.

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

God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.

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

the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

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

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.

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

a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

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

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.

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