In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

God-kings of War

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

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

the Unquiet Past

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

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.