One might first think that the chosen twist in your story is not very sensitive. But far from it.

You draw attention to something that is the subject of a great human dispute and that separates the feminine from the masculine. As much as I rebel internally against the word "patriarch" and shed bitter tears because it triggers sadness in me that two strong people apparently do not unite their strengths, the story critic takes a different view and says: "Painful and yet fitting, it resonates with much of the history we have been writing since.

A very thoughtful sentence from the mouth of Muk-nola, who sets a mark here.

It could also have been that Shog only temporarily puts the decisions into his hammer. But no ... it had already announced itself in the course of the plot. You really continued to tell it stringently.

So I join @sarez and repeat also his sentence:

The Last line is a good punch.