In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

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

God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

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

the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

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

a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

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