In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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