In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.