In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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

God-kings of War

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

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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

the Unquiet Past

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

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