Summer of 610fk
[4] Spring passes into Summer uneventfully. The fields return to silence after the beastly invasions of...beasts. The fields are re-plowed and a late crop of grain is brought up to speed with the ashes of villages touched by the beastly taint. Peace once more returns to the valley, and the Heat From Under Earth makes the summer scorching; a nice respite from the freezing cold.
[5+1] The people are content, glad their leaders can fight off the beasts that have terrorized them in their tales and legends with ease. The bards begin to sing songs in praises of Jarod Goldhand, Araline
"Whitepelt" Blackberry, Valerian Vanguarde, Hrosskel Beast Slayer and the soldiers of their regiments.
[5+1] The extra tales about them and free drinks bought by wealthy and un-wealthy patrons, along with the extra money from selling Warg parts and other...trophies, increases military morale greatly, and they raise glasses to their commanders and cheer them on in their goals.
[3] The capital of Finister is still devoid of criminals, or atleast a large amount of them, the rate is slowly rising, but the guards, now calling themselves The Watch, can handle most if not all of it without issue.
[4] A trader, aged and bent with a great white beard, flanked by guards, sends in a proposal to the nobility and the king himself. He seems to wish to start selling Opium and Opium Derivatives(Longsleep, Auranum, Argentanum, and of course, to those with permits for such thing, Darkdream) in the Major cities of the nation, imported from the southern plainland plantations. No expenditure is required on the part of the kingdom, unless it wishes to purchase said goods itself.
[~] And the clerics of the kingdom press you to approve it, citing the increased tax revenue from such a venture and the increased happiness of the population proper. There might even be enough for a new road system!
Political Events
[4] Amuis and Visil Dru are officially at war, but Dru continues to only send barely enough soldiers to put pressure on the tiny city-state.
[3] Nothing else much happens, this season. Peace seems insured, at least for this summer.
[1]Nocte merchants come into conflict with Dru's own timber and fur sellers, a brief trade war between a set of merchant flares into a heavy battle, before ceasing as a victor takes control of his enemy's holdings and markets. A large trade fur-trading firm is shut down in Nocte, putting many trappers out of work and on the street. (-1 morale, -.3 ducat lost in the King's Lands, Blackberry and Caedan duchies.)