Losing people was hard for Dionysus. It serves anyone in his story always lost their life, beginning with his mother. He took things in an intense way. His face was blank when she delivered her threat, his eyes the only source of the pain that she could see. It was a debilitating threat. He would morn her and drag himself into Hades from the pain.
But, his Mayneads could do his bidding and once he drove them to madness he list control of their desires.