>>5481195>>5481194>>5481015>>5480997>>5480912>>5480898>Beyond Hewe, the neighboring human towns are worth inviting. You don't expect some mass of travelers, but some envoys from each of them would be welcome. A chance at diplomacy, as well to show off the awesome feat of your reshaping the landscape.>Not to upset anyone, and to improve relations, you're willing to work with the church on this and find some appropriate holiday or festival by their tradition to expand with all this celebration.Although your preference would be to keep the festival just to Bexley for your own people, it seems wasteful to miss an opportunity you have here with as much work as is being put into it, and Darry and others agree. This is a dangerous land, so how many will even bother to show up remains to be seen but it can't hurt to spread the word and offer invitations to some of the neighboring towns. Partly to try and open a line of diplomacy with these neighbors as with Hewe, but also with the intent to impress and awe mortals unfamiliar with you of your divine might.
Furthermore for added legitimacy and to maintain an extended olive branch of sorts, you decide to involve the church which of course is very well-received by all those in the know and involved. Having to contend with the inherent opposition based on your competing nature with the God of these mortals, not to mention your steady encroachment on the local church's rights and importance, has been a persistent annoyance for you. As well of course as a definite blockade to acceptance and worship of you, a thorn in the side of your legitimacy.
This effort of yours however, to work with the church by way of Sir Tyne, comes to benefit you as much as it is appreciated by the people. The worthy idea of associating the celebrations with a pre-existing holiday of this other faith is widely seen as endorsement or at least tolerance by the populace, and personally towards the church the few clergy members can overlook and pardon some of your... transgressions, lately. It's not just the nobles who are offended by your actions and style, naturally the conservative faith would find issue with your behavior and worse, spread that upset to the people. Unlike the nobles however, given your cooperative effort with the church like this (and assumedly going forward), the priests consider to look the other way in a sense. After all, they already have to try and contend with the obvious divine acts you regularly perform, so they begin formulating an idea of duality. Whereby, the laws and expectations of God apply differently to you than to the common man... potentially a fiasco if there were an abundance of deities around who could flaunt the rules, but since you are the only one, it is an acceptable compromise.
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Another couple weeks of planning and preparation then, and finally the festivities can commence! And what a successful, and merry endeavor they prove to be.
