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- For this month, many important people will neglect their duties in order to compete for the affections of a noted, unmarried person. This person is a prostitute. If duelling exists in the country, duels will indeed be fought. This will lead to the death of an important person in a duel. There is a clear successor and no power struggle anticipated.
- Famine strikes the land, lasting 4 months. The cost of food will increase, up to 100 times its normal price. Normally law-abiding folk will turn to crime in desperation. Farms will produce no income for a year, and only one quarter of their income for the next year. The population will reduce by 5% each month. Fortunately, there is no plague associated with the famine. Fortunately, the ravages of civil war can be avoided this time.
- Plague strikes the land, lasting 12 months. The population of the area is reduced by 5% each month. While the plague lasts, the cost of imported goods will be 5 times normal, and the price of all other goods will be doubled, as traders refuse to enter the area.
- An ambassador arrives from a neutral nation, and will stay for 16 months. They are mostly interested in swapping magical or technological knowledge. The conditions they offer will be better if i) their country is weak, ii) the host country is powerful, iii) their country is a generally peaceful one, and worse if the opposite is true.
- Explorers return with news of a new land. The new land is completely uninhabited.