>>5471333>>5471317>>5471252>>5471244>>5471229>>5471221>>5471213>>5471101>>5471019>>5470910>>5470737>>5470607>>5470506>>5470491Although it has been a peaceful season, there's not a shortage of things come to pass. The persistent thorn in your side of course is the nobility, and their annoying demands of you. How a proper lady should act, dress, speak, etc... not only is it all too stuffy for a Menaji lifestyle as yours, but it feels insulting for mortals to be dictating things to a goddess. Sometimes you have some regrets in not having just taken absolute control of the region and established yourself as a proper god-queen above question or reproach, but then that's not really in your nature is it? You agreed to adopt the system in place of these people and agreed to operate within it, so in some ways it's only fair that you might be called upon and checked when you step out of line, by their judgement. If it was all one-sided and you only ever got your way, then it wouldn't be a cooperative effort.
Ah, but that's how things were agreed upon at first, back then when this whole situation developed. After this much time you've been chafed too much and don't very much care for whatever the agreement used to be. You don't intend to break it fully... yet, but you will take different steps to advance your position. Steps that are suitable to your nature; a different god may just destroy all dissenters and kill the critics, but you seek the loving and benevolent path in all things.
And the most loving choice you have to you, is discipline as a mother would to bad children.
<span class="mu-b">"My wife is sick to bed, too sick to attend of her own! Is there nothing you can do, your grace?"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"We thought my husband recovered from his wounds of the tall-ones, but see how they smart again? Look here, his arm and worse!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Much of the fields flourish, yet the plots of my retainers wither. I know the waters are your focus, but surely a goddess can see it well?"</span>
One by one the dissenters come to you with problems that start to arise for them. It was one thing to take for granted your saving the town from the elven attack, but your presence provides many other benefits in subtle ways that most mortals may notice. Health and Fertility, lesser aspects than Love for you but nonetheless very impactful to people's lives. See how problems start to show for the disloyal persons of court, while those more loyal don't seem to suffer. It doesn't take long before this glut of troubles is noticed in a pattern, but what do they think will happen? That they can continue to trouble you, yet you'll still favor them? Furthermore it starts to cause divisions within court, as to whom are considered loyal and faithful and who are not, for surely only heretics or unworthy would lose favor of the goddess?
