If i was Hesero Nelaran I would be so mad at Setheris. Your beloved husband gets banished from court because he got into a tussle with another court buerecrat, and hes sent to the ass end of nowhere to rot to take care of the Emperor's most hated son, and you spend a decade constantly petitioning to have him returned to court, and then, the luckiest thing ever happens. Not only is the Emperor dead, the new Emperor is that kid that your husband has been taking care of, and by all logic he should think of Setheris as a sort of father figure. Not only is your husband coming back, its almost certain that he will soon be catapulted to the highest levels of government, you two are set for life baby.
It takes a while for him to properly meet with you two, makes sense he's very busy. Eventually you get your audience, and hes a very nice young man, gets a bit flustered at you maybe, but hes very polite and everything seems great. Then he refuses to have any audience with your husband for ages, and gives him a relatively minor post UNDER your husband's hated enemy that prevents him from currying any Imperial favor. Then, your husbands enemy launches a full blown coup against the Emperor, and your husband is arrested due to working for him, not great, but Erdrehasivar almost certainly knows that your honorable husband would refuse to join with Chavar, not just for personal spite, but also for moral considerations. Heck, its a rough patch, but perhaps with Chavar out of the way Setheris has a shot at some more influential office again?
Then the Emperor tells you, while youre begging to have him released, that your dipshit husband spent the last ten years beating him and subjecting him to pointless cruelties. The seemingly shoddy treatment your husband has received thus far is suddenly revealed to be surprisingly generous for a hormonal teenager who has suddenly been given near absolute power. What should've been a First Class Meal Ticket for the rest of your political lives is now going to result at best in some far away functionary position with no real influence. I would've killed him.
