In a Wicked Age
four oracles

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

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

God-kings of War

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

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

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

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

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

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