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May require a king of [[Royal Blood|the right family]]. Of course, in those works, the rightful king tends to be the good king.
[[Trope Namer]] is the guardian of the Holy Grail in some versions of the [[King Arthur|Arthurian legends]]. He is wounded in the leg or thigh, which is a medieval eupemism
Contrast [[Friend to All Living Things]] and [[Enemy to All Living Things]], where their mere existence causes the changes (on a small scale).
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== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* [[Trope Namer]] is from [[Arthurian Legend]]. See the trope description.
* A variant is Demeter, the goddess of verdant stuff in the [[Greek Mythology]], especially in the story of the kidnapping of her daughter Persephone by Hades. When she is with her daughter, the world is lush and green. When her daughter is away with her hubby Hades, the world is hot, dry, and barren. Give yourself a pomegranate seed! Persephone goes away for half the year. This is, of course, the origin story of the change of seasons.
* In some ancient cultures the king and his personal piety and virility were equated with such things as the success of the crops and life of the land in general. So, in the early ages, the Pharaoh of Egypt [[Squick|masturbated into the Nile]] annually at the festival of ''Shemu'' to ascertain the flood. <ref>Shemu is still celebrated in [[Modern Egypt]] as a general spring festival called ''Shamm el-Nessim'', without the masturbation, thank you. Can you imagine Hosni Mubarak jacking off into the Nile?</ref> It's not entirely surprising that this was [[Truth in Television]], in a sense - succession was rarely a smooth business, and as such, ''any'' king who perpetually managed to hold on to life generally ensured an era of stability and well-being for his people. While no sovereign actually has sympathetic magical control over their lands, good governing generally means stability and well-being for the people, while bad governing means a rough time.
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