In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

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

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

God-kings of War

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

the Unquiet Past

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

a Nest of Vipers

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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