Some pretty nice rolls! Critted the Moon Sphere Influence roll, and the Avatar roll was just 2 from the max possible, so we gained over double the amount of progress we had. Also, bought Sea Affinity, which unlocked Ocean Affinity! Increased the surcharge on our available Affinities (but gave a discount for Ocean), and also decreased the DE cost of Control Water.
Saiga does not come
Awe rolled 18
Gained 3 Legend
Aka to mortal perspective, every turn Saiga doesn't come after us while we're messing with his followers, we're winning this phase of our interactions, and so we gain a bit of Legend. Probably will fade eventually, even if Saiga never confronts us again, as the accumulated Legend has the humans cement "Gaerig tricked Saiga into allowing her to do whatever she wants with his followers" into our mythos. But until then... Shows why spirit-spirit interactions are a Legend generator, and how important they are in this iteration of the game: that sole interaction last turn gave us Legend in both turns, and it was the sole Legend gain we got for this turn.
You will ensure perfection the next time you desire this treatment, and the best way to do that is to make sure they know the price of failure
And combining this with last turn, this is a carrot and stick approach. Of course, since our villagers aren't animal handlers or innovators in the study of teaching, Gaerig doesn't have the concepts to understand what's she doing and neither do the villagers. Gaerig's also a Fear spirit, so she naturally focuses on the punishment aspect. Though this does eventually set up a 'Fear of failure' concept for Gaerig to feed off of, removed from the current 'Fear of death' she's currently stuck with, and ensure the Fear ritualized behaviors have an emphasis on precision. Might count against Mischief and Capricious, though, if the villagers come to believe if they certain things perfectly, by rote, they could ward off Gaerig's wrath.
Saiga has sequestered himself in his shrine, and will not leave to face you.
Sleep? We know he's a Faith spirit, but one of our mortal followers was able to peek in on him during the turn, so I don't think that's it. We have some inklings that he might have a Craft skill, and possibly Innovation, so maybe he's following last turn's command and making something to offer to Gaerig? Or he could be waiting for the demand timer to fall off. Since we're not even in a Pantheon with him, let alone his superior in some hierarchy, I doubt will stick for very long.
Saiga is also very restrained from the time of the oldest generations. The grandmothers tell stories that they were told but have never seen, depicting Saiga as brash, adventurous, and far more magnanimous than he is today. For as long as any have known him, he has gone to hunt game and fish when the people need him most, but little else. The last man gives perhaps the most useful information; he had waited, into the Long Night, as Saiga remained in his shrine, hoping to glimpse what the spirit did. Instead, he ducked away as a mortal approached during a time of rest, raising a stone disk with a few images depicted on it. He spoke carefully, and your informant could not hear, but Saiga turned his head and bowed!
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You have discovered Attrouska, The Crone.
So early!Saiga was like early!Harzivan? Massive blind spot, concerned only with one area of life, blessing like crazy because he didn't know any better, and because of everything above, massively upset the social order of his time? And the current Saiga is sorta, kinda, maybe like Harzivan after River Mother dominated him (in position and importance, anyways -- I highly doubt he has a thread full of SVers who will never ever let any perceived insult go). I don't think we can safely say Saiga provoked the rise of a new spirit, nor that Attrouska is that spirit... But I'm going to assume that, temporarily, for a few guesses: the epithet "The Crone" suggests Attrouska is a spirit of elders, of old wise women who lead and govern the tribe. Saiga, in his magnanimity, nigh-toppled those elders from their position when he started giving the young way more resources and wealth than his village ever saw. The young, naturally, agitated for and got, by virtue of their wealth, leadership positions, and the elders got very upset, particularly because overfishing/overhunting is completely a concern when this is the Artic and you're already living on the edge. They started sacrificing to some honored ancestor, and so Attrouska was born. And then she dominated Saiga (through high natural Leadership?) and made him stop depopulating the local animal species.
I don't think the above guesses are completely correct, but if our village was founded relatively young, in their great-great-grandparents' time, then the timeline would match up, right? Saiga has a decade or two to build up a dedicated core of believers, Attrouska appears and puts a stop to his activities, then a bunch of people (who had benefited from Saiga's earlier efforts) from both spirits' villages became pissed off and left to found our village. Then they lived and died, leaving only their hate (weakening to mere sneers) of the spirit that drove them to this place to their descendants. (And Saiga, who they did worship, still had his proponents, until Gaerig converted or drove them off.)
Anyways, since Gaerig now has forgotten her earlier discomfort for land (with the building of her shrine?), if we really needed a inland target for our wrath and we don't want to target these two villages we know now, there's this nice village that our people already have a built-in distaste for. Unfortunately, that epithet suggests she either has a sorceror build (which makes us not happy) or she has a Leadership build (which makes us even more not happy).