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With the food and supplies matter taken care of for now, and your attention to the living <span class="mu-i">and</span> the dead, finally the situation is starting to seem a little less doomed to the people. They're having trouble finding any hope in anything, but at least they are going to sleep at night without resignation that it is their last. Hope for the future? Now that will be a battle more difficultly won.
Because of your actions though, naturally devotion in you rises. Whether or not people understand your claim of godhood, pretty soon they are regarding you as something higher than them, something special. With little resistance to push back against you, how easy it would be to simply step up and claim dominion for yourself. But whether you want to do so, and what that would come to mean... specifically, what sort of duties and responsibilities you would desire to take to these people, for how actively or directly you'd want to govern or rule them... that's your choice to make.
At the very least though, you provide something for people to unify behind. The first something in a long time, maybe not to unify the whole region but at least the people of the castle can find solace and stability in the order you bring to them. In some ways, unspoken and unmoved, you already represent a leader to them if not a ruler. There's still much to be done before progress can start being made, but this is a matter you think would be best to settle before any serious undertakings.
One last other concern as well, is the matter of a few in your group. Rene, Keely and Zeni, the odd ones out, the former attracts attention while the latter two are rejected from entry to the castle. You might be able to convince people towards some positive outcome, but for Zeni... suffering at elven hands is too much an issue for these people to accept her even by your persuasion. To this end, she considers just going her own way again, since she finished the job of guiding you from Eindward to Bexley.
>Someone else would do better to step up and lead, you prefer supporting from behind the scenes. Ideally one of your own group though, who you have a direct line to.
>You suppose you could lead these people, even if it means tying yourself to them to some degree. For their comfort and acceptance, you're willing to follow their social norms as well, perhaps accepting the role of nobility or something like that?
>More than a leader, you are a ruler. Establish absolute authority over this region, perhaps as a god-queen even, if people can grasp such a concept.
>Ruler? No, you are a goddess! Their goddess now!
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