[X][Seryn] Accept.
[X] Plan Get Some Earth Mages
-[X][Spirit] Focus on Blessing
--[X][Spirit] Elairamur's Idol
-[X][Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
--[X][Spirit] Avawyr
-[X][Avatar] Explore
--[X][Avatar] The Mountains to the East
-[X][Avatar] Construction
--[X][Avatar] Stone Wall around Avawyr: 6.25/18-28 Progress
-[X][Avatar] Visit
--[X][Avatar] Evatine at Evalon
-[X][Avatar] Experiment
--[X][Avatar] Try to bless some followers -including your 9-year-old son, Cadyl - with the ability to use Earth Magic, with Evatine's advice.
-[X][Leadership] Stone Wall Around Avawyr
-[X][Leadership] Blessing with the Earth
-[X][Leadership] Exploring the Mountains
***
This cycle also proves to be a good one. In Avawyr, you and Bronwyn carry out your usually spiritual duties throughout the cycle whilst carrying out separate tasks in the rest of time.
Your wife focuses on more crafting, coming up with more pottery, stone carvings and other goods and works of art with the usual aid of Gwyn and her artisans. Terwyn and Vardyn cares for their children whilst aiding you and Bronwyn in running Avawyr with Eulyn also pitching in.
Speaking of your grandkids, it seems that they inherited some of the Aspect of the Wildcat as the girls were growing up quicker than they should while Myrlin was maturing as rapidly as your own daughters did.
As for you, you make some more progress on the stone wall and you also decide to go poking at Elairamur's idol again. You are successful at the poking, but you do not get much of a response, just a bit of stirring by whatever remains of Elairamur inside your stone idol.
You also have a couple of things you want to achieve this cycle apart. First is an expedition to explore the mountains east of Avawyr while the second is to use your Aspect of Earth to make some Earth Mages or the Prydymar.
You had the latter idea floating around your head for some time now, but you have yet to get around to doing anything about it until now. And quite frankly, it is about time that you started doing something about it. Your brother has had Metal Mages, the Myrymar, for some time now and has made good use out of them while Isorine created from Water Mages, the Dywrymar, last cycle up in Prylake.
Since your brother has been successfully making Mages or Ymar for some time now, you decide to visit Evatine in Evalon for advice on the matter before trying your own hand at it.
It is shortly after arriving in on Eva Isle that you find out that Seryn as a similar idea regarding her Aspect of Lightning as your daughter shows up to see Evatine regarding the processing of creating Mages as well.
Your brother helpfully provides you and Seryn with the proper guidance on how to successful empower Mage while you answer Seryn's proposal with your belated acceptance.
Evatine offers you a private hut on the outskirts of Evalon for the experiment, keeping it free of mortal followers in case things go wrong.
It goes…for lack of a better word, well. It is odd from your perspective, but you cannot say that it went poorly.
To start it off, Seryn gives you a general blessing, one that she usually gives her followers. It proves to be limited to your Avatar, effecting no part of you beyond what is physically there in front of Seryn. It ultimately does not prove to be successful for couple of reasons.
The first is that Seryn's standard blessing is too weak for take place on you with your own spiritual energies being able to passively reject it without any active input from you. However, that would not have been a problem if it was not for the clash between her Divinity of Femininity and your Aspect of Fatherhood. And even if there was not any trouble, the blessing would have quickly worn off as you passively converted the foreign energy into your own spiritual aura.
With both being a major trait of your respective spiritual natures, both attempt to assert dominance when the rest of the blessing when fine with Seryn's Aspect of the Wildcat even strengthening your own lesser version of it.
A second attempt was made afterwards, this time using a stronger blessing than before. It proves to be successful depending on how you look at the matter. The blessing was successfully placed upon you, but it is not anything you would want to repeat.
The second blessing was strong enough to overcome your passive defences, but you feel confident that you could have resisted it if you were making an active effort. However, you were confident that Seryn could have powered through any active efforts on your part if she was putting enough effort into it. Except you were a Spirit of Chiefhood and Fatherhood and Seryn is your daughter and subordinate and you could not help, but feel was an important factor so maybe it was not as clear cut as a contest of skills.
Looking back at it, you could not shake the feeling that you stumbled across the domination thing that the crow-spirit Morcaviana had to inflict upon your wife so long ago.
In the end, none of that was relevant as you and Seryn were willing participants in the experiment and you did not resist the blessing despite your ability to do so.
So you let the Divinity of Femininity overcome the Aspect of Fatherhood in their struggle and the blessing took its effect on your avatar. Suppressing your own spiritual energies somewhat, especially your Fatherhood, the blessing took the form of one of Seryn's default blessings if a bit stronger than what she would normally use.
Since Seryn has become a goddess, all three of her Divinities, Vigour, Beauty and Femininity, take some form in each of her spiritual actions. Vigour and the less martial Aspects folded into it strengthen your avatar just as Seryn's blessing strengthens the physical bodies of her followers. That part is something that you expected, but what caught you off guard was what the Divinity of Femininity did and how the Divinity of Beauty interacted with what the Divinity of Femininity did.
Long story short, the blessing turned your avatar into a tall, muscular, but curvaceous cat girl, the epitome of Divine Beauty. You do not get as much benefit as a mortal follower would out of the blessing as Seryn's weaker Aspects do not have the staying power to have a noteworthy impact.
Even then, the blessing only lasted less than a couple of hours before fading and your avatar returned to normal. Seryn offered to give another go, having found the sight of you looking like one of her followers to be highly amusing, but you decline.
While Seryn found it amusing and Evatine was indifferent, you just found it to be irritating and uncomfortable at a core level, most likely due to your Aspect of Fatherhood due to how it kept clashing with Seryn's Divinity of Femininity.
In the end, you parted ways and left for your respective villages after a couple of days of catching up.
Seryn had been carrying out her usual blessings whilst also expending energy on supporting her Cath Wyrs in the Bedygan hills. Apart from continuing to make the path between Bedywn and Bedynn, which is now almost done after her work this cycle, Seryn has continued to hunt the shadow monsters with the aid of her Cath Wyrs.
The results are good, but not as good as Seryn hoped. She has healed any injuries that the Cath Wyrs suffer and as a result, has yet to lose any, but the number of shadow monsters does not seem to be thinning and whenever, they clear out an area, some more shadow monsters just come back in.
As for Evatine, he is continuing his usage routine, which is working out rather well for him. Sixty Myrymar, a hundred and eighty blessed iron spears and enough iron tools for half of Evalon. Within a great cycle, he will have more than enough iron tools for the entire village with some spare and enough iron spears for multiple armies.
Once he is done with Evalon's iron needs, you ought to look into getting your brother and some of his Myrymar into making some iron equipment for Avawyr.
***
Your exploration expedition into eastern mountains is successful for a certain degree of the word. You and Arwyn managed to make good progress before turning back in time to get home for the cold season and you do not encounter any troubles out there that the two of you could not handle.
But you do not find anything of note either. Just more mountains. Perhaps there is something beyond what you explored, but you did not reach it this cycle.
At least your creation of Prydymar went successfully. Picking out a dozen of your more worthy followers plus your ten-cycle old son Cadyl, you use your Aspect of Earth to grant them the ability to shape the earth on their own power. Of course, they will be limited by how much spiritual energy a mortal human can gather and store on their own along with how much energy a mortal human can use at once, but it is something.
Cadyl is particularly pleased as while the lad will not admit, even to himself, he is somewhat jealous of being the only normal one of the family. Oh, he does not blame you or anyone else for that for the lad is smart and wise beyond his years to the point, it is joked that he is not actually your son, but your brother's. Yet, Cadyl cannot shake how he is as ordinary as your average mortal follower whereas his parents and uncle are respected spirits and his sisters are all extraordinary with Seryn being the most powerful being in the known world.
You also hear about Seryn's attempts at creating Ymar from across Lake Eva. While your daughter was successful like you were, Seryn ran into similar problems that you discovered when she attempted to bless you. Whenever she attempts to bless someone with one of her minor Aspects, her main Divinities leak into it.
The end result is while Seryn can create Lyltymar, all of those who receive the ability to wield Lightning Magic from her end up female, attractive looking and physically strong and tough.
Not a necessarily bad thing as unlike with the Myrymar, the Prydymar or even Isorine's Dywrymar up at Prylake, you cannot see any useful non-battle applications for the Lyltymar so having them so anyone who seeks to become a Lyltymar would not mind being one of Seryn's warriors.
At this point, it has become apparent that any blessing specific to Seryn is going to involve her three main Divinities. The generic blessings and healings that any spirit can do are fine, but if it relates to Seryn's aspects or is a major blessing, then her status as goddess comes into play.
For two of them, it is a nonissue as being physically stronger and tougher is not a problem as it is being better looking. But Seryn's Divinity of Femininity means that her specific blessings will only apply to females and if you are not one, well, then being exposed to enough of her divine energy will make you one.
Once again, you do not know how to feel about that.
Basic Spirit Actions: 2 Actions available
[] [Spirit] Focus on Blessing
-[] [Spirit] Avawyr
-[] [Spirit] Iron Spears
-[] [Spirit] Elairamur's Idol
-[] [Spirit]
[] [Spirit] Focus on Inspiring Followers
-[] [Spirit] Avawyr
[] [Spirit] Focus on Healing Followers
-[] [Spirit] Avawyr
[Spirit] Focus on Bolstering the Harvest
-[] [Spirit] Avawyr
Avatar Actions:
4 Actions available
[] [Avatar] Explore
-[] [Avatar] The Mountains to the South-West
-[] [Avatar] The Mountains to the Far South-West (Costs 2 Actions)
-[] [Avatar] The Mountains to the East
-[] [Avatar] The Mountains to the Far East (Costs 2 Actions)
-[] [Avatar] The North Lake Western Coastline (Costs 2 Actions)
-[] [Avatar] The North Lake Mountains (Costs 2 Actions)
-[] [Avatar] The Lake Eva Northern Coastline
-[] [Avatar] The North Lake
-[] [Avatar] The Southern Grasslands (Costs 2 Actions)
-[] [Avatar] The Eastern Forest (Costs 2 Actions)
[] [Avatar] Construction
-[] [Avatar] Stone Wall around Avawyr: 7.25/18-28 Progress
[] [Avatar] Hunt
[] [Avatar] Visit
-[] [Avatar] Evatine at Evalon
-[] [Avatar] Seryn at Bedywn
-[] [Avatar] Seryn at Bedynn
-[] [Avatar] Isorine at Prylake (Costs 2 Actions)
[] [Avatar] Experiment
-[] [Avatar] Write-in.
Leadership Actions: 3 Actions available
Leadership Actions are used to improve other Actions such as Avatar or Spirit.
[] [Leadership] Write-in.