The two most important things to happen to Cincturons in the last year are, firstly, that the entire country was conquered by foreign archmages/liberated from the power of Hell/suborned by a paladin queen, and secondly that someone murdered perfectly-respectable Maurici Savall and seduced/abducted/conspired with that angry girl Valeria.

That second one doesn't have much effect on Xavi's life though, because when the rumours of the first one reached the 'Hell' part, he thought about whether they would be fine with devilspawn running around the country, thought about whether anyone else they knew would think the same thing, and then did not come down to the village until harvest.

When the main planting season is mostly over, he is once again on the upper hillsides minding the flock of goats. (They also almost all hate him, but definitely won't conspire to kill him.)