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.

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.