In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

God-kings of War

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

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

the Unquiet Past

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

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

a Nest of Vipers

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

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.