In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

God-kings of War

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

the Unquiet Past

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

a Nest of Vipers

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.