In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

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

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

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

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.