In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

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

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

God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

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

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

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

the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

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

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

a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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.

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

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