Adn drama addicted she was - Fynnyntyss seemed to enjoy playing up being bombastic at every opportunity, and would make an effort to thoroughly enmesh herself in the lives of everyone she could. On the other hand, that level of... curiosity about those she worked with seemed to pay off in spades, as she was generous with gifts for every occasion, and knew of, and remembered,<em>every</em>occasion. She also seemed to be particularly adept at heading off miscommunications and personality conflicts before they blew up into something serious - while egging on the ones that would erupt into generally harmless conclusions. One might almost think she was a copper dragon, from the way she seemed to enjoy puppeting relationships for her own amusement, though if asked, she'd deflect and state that it was entirely manipulation to ensure loyalty and harmony among her subordinates.<br/><br/>The expansion was slower, if only by virtue of finding it difficult to find more people willing to settle and claim these new territories; in all likelihood, they might need to wait until a new generation was grown, and willing to expand, before they could make the same explosive progress as before. That, or they'd have to take more inhabited lands, and convince those people to begin to spread.