You decide that Leath and Ysa will marry, despite all possible objections to this scandalous plan.
1130 AD, Mid-Spring
A small ceremony there is for marriage of Leath and Ysa. The two are absolutely lost in each other's eyes, and you hear that Ysa is a feisty troublemaker but friend of all peoples that accompanies well Leath's taught propriety and charisma.
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Though the scandalous marriage of a heir to the throne with a lowly commoner girl does not escape the attention of your subjects, unfortunately. Many governors, officers, priests and nobles voice their utter disgust with the decision, and many openly wonder whether you are fit to govern! Those voices are quieted down by your diplomats and envoys, but it's obvious that that happiness and stability of Methiant took a deep plunge.
1130 AD, Late Spring
You hear that King Shapur launched a campaign against the peoples of Shanshan. Apparently his goal is to reclaim lands lost to their rivals few decades ago. Not surprising, this.
Also, tutors and advisors likewise, have little praise for Ustwelf; he didn't excel in any of the fields of study that your courtiers tried to entice him with. All that can be said about him is, perhaps, that he is
lucky, having narrowly escaped several standard childhood accidents that would leave others wounded or maybe even crippled.
1130 AD, Summer
There's a major reform going up in the north; apparently, the shrewd King Talon of Cydwyl has long been uspet at the state of royal bureaucracy in his Kingdom, even long before his venerable mother's death, and took it upon himself to change things. Even now, rumors say that many old, corrupt, or both, officials and tax collectors are being imprisoned or executed for their laziness, briberies or even treacheries while regiments of educated youths thake their place under new scheme of bureaucratic organization.
It will take a while to kick in, but Cydwyl's interior policies might finally rise to be equal to its glorious conquests of past decades.
1130 AD, Midsummer
Sad news reach your palace on an otherwise lovely midsummer day - Elran III, King of Eldrican, has passed away after a friendly duel with one of his courtiers ended in a wound; the wound was sealed but an infection kicked in, and Elran's body, already in its late sixties, succumbed to fever after three day fight against it. His son and heir, Edin, has become the new King of Eldrican, taking on regnal name of Daric III, and people say he's a skilled duelist and renowned military leader.
While your wife Esta is bawling her eyes out (even after being comforted by you and the kids), you decide that you should...
A) Visit the glorious country along with your family and pay respects to Elran III's grave.
B) Send a delegation of courtiers who will pay respects to Elran III's grave.
C) Send a letter of condolences to Daric III.
D) Move on to more important things.
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