In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

God-kings of War

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

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.