You decide gainst any Edict-making this year.
1173 AD, Spring
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Silverwork got some coin into the Treasury.
1173 AD, Mid-Spring
Irvalina of Eldrican arrives to marry Hein!
You eagerly meet with your somewhat distant cousin, but a cousin nonetheless, and enter a chatty party time.
You learn that quite a few noblemen has been removed from power in recent decade by Tetan, and that silver mines at Koi have been in steep decline for past decade. What silver was brought of them last year was forged into some jewelry that makes Irvalina's personal trinkets for her future life as Princess of Methiant.
She then delves into more mundane topics, like bones of hippogryphs being dug out in southeastern Eldrican, and it seems that people again believe in their healing prophecies. Uh, hippogryph powder is so last century! Irvalina, in her chatter, reveals that silver and gold has been scarce in Tetan's treasury last year; instead, copper coins as well as foreign money fill it up, the break-up of Damdamians allowing Tetans' merchants to hook up several sweet trade deals with the southern kingdoms and states.
Wishing Irvalina happy and good wifedom, you give her away into Hein's hands.
The two marry in a somewhat moderate ceremony, with many local guests attending (you, of course, included).
1173 AD, Late Spring
Bjeda, your mother-in-law, is sick in bed!
The healers have found some strange growth in her abdomen, near her womb. They want to stuff her full of mineral and herbal tinctures and to sew some healing herbs into her abdomen, but Pantheonists have already prepared rituals for the God of Healing, to ask him to cure Bjeda of her ails, lest she dies so young. This has already caused some bickering at your court.
A) Obviously not my problem, this.
B) Healers are wise and learned in ways of medicine, they know what they're doing!
C) Such a strange illness requires something extra. Let us pray to God of Healing!