No sooner has Rozemyne’s fourth year at the Royal Academy begun than she ends up somewhere unexpected. How will the saint respond when an incident in Ahrensbach leaves everyone else feeling defeated?
I’m really looking forward to how her retainers react to her sudden transformation. Rozemyne still has some classes right? Like she has to do her dedication whirl? It’s not like she can dip to Ehrenfest while they try to keep the situation private, but they’re gonna have to. The Archduke Conference is mere months away, when she’ll be adopted as a royal.
This really reminds me of when she was in the jureve but in reverse. In the jureve, she was asleep for years while everyone else developed both physically and mentally. Now, while in the Garden of Beginnings, she’s aged presumably about 3 years, and her mind’s been filled with knowledge. while for everyone else, it’s been less than a bell’s time.
God, what of her commoner family too? Their weak little daughter/sister has suddenly hit a magical growth spurt and is suddenly a young woman. Oh I truly do look forward to the POVs for this volume!
Also, now she has access to the information necessary to warn Sylvester about Georgine’s ability to steal Ehrenfest’s foundation. That fancy new tablet should help her in finding it, but how will she warn him, and what will he do to prevent such a thing happening. Georgine really represents the old ways of doing things; even though Ahrensbach is normally a higher ranking duchy then Ehrenfest, her teachings were the ways of the middle-ranking backwater duchy she grew up in. Her taking over Ehrenfest would be in every way regressive for the Duchy, not to mention much of her archducal family would likely be killed in response.
Keep in mind that the gods are clearly aware of her time as Myne, so they would age her up to her actual age, not her noble age, meaning that Rozemyne went from looking younger than her known age, to looking one year older than she officially is. ^^
Myne, back in her day, was already 2 to 3 years behind in growth. The one year in the coma kind of balances out with her noble age being one year younger than her true age. But even after the first jureve, we were told that while Rozemyne started growing a bit, it was still slower than other children her age. So put that all together, and I would not be surprised if it was 4 years or even more she was behind and given in one big spurt now.
Same here on the reations. I’m looking forward to see, which of Rozemyne’s retainers and friends manage to just take it in their stride, because of how used they are to the impossible and inplausible happening to and around her, and how many jaws will have to be picked up the floor.
Considering that from her letter to Grausam & Co she indicated that she had to look for the entrance to the Foundation, just moving that entrance should be enough to shut her plans down. Naturally that isn’t a perfect solution either, since her first move would naturally be to assassinate Sylvester and only then take over the Foundation. Her discovering that she can’t access the Foundation any longer is going to be little comfort if Syl is already dead at the time. So I think that’s what they need to guard against more, the assassination.
But Georgine is under real time pressure now. Her plan hinges on the Zent being without a Grutrissheit and thus unable to just remake the Ehrenfest foundation and give it to someone else. The moment there is a true Zent, the only thing she can expect from murdering Sylvester and stealing his foundation, is a public execution. So unless she can prevent anyone from gaining a Grutrissheit, to assure that Sigiswald will become the next fake king, she needs to act fast. Of course if that were to happen and nobody is going to get a full Grutrissheit soon, the country is going to fall apart anyway, but right now Georgine does not know that and thus probably thinks that a fake king is to her advantage.
I wonder what will happen if the country foundation were to fail. Could the Aubs hold their duchies together to form a patchwork of effectively seperate mini-countries, or do the duchy foundations require the existence of the country foundation?
I’m seeing this sentiment a lot here that she’s finally looking her age, when there’s nothing to indicate that’s what Erwärmen/Anwachs was aiming for. Erwärmen only said that her vessel was too small to contain the Book of Mestionora, not that she was too small for her age. For all we know if she had already looked her age (noble age or true age) then Erwärmen may have still had her grow a bit more.
All we really know is that she now has a large enough “vessel” (presumably a large enough capacity for mana/schtappe) for the Book of Mestionora.
After letting out the High Bishop’s robes, she mentions that they still cover her legs completely, but makes no mention of having to hike it up to not trip on it. And that robe was made to acommodate her expected height for the entire tenure as High Bishop, which was always intended to come to an end at 15, when she comes of age.
So regardless of what Erwaermen and Anwachs intended, her looking close to her actual age was certainly the outcome.
But you do make a good point. Since we don’t know the full intent of the gods, we can not assume that she now looks exactly 14, just because that’s her true age. We only know for certain, that she still fits in the HIgh Bishop’s robes. But since Corinna couldn’t just measure how tall she would be in the future, she could only have spitballed it. So the robes might have ended up either a bit too small or too big for Rozemyne, once she came of age, they might have incorporated some extra safety margin, or not… plenty of fuzzy factors that might shift her current apparent age one way or the other, but only to a certain degree.
I think we can still assume she now looks something within the 13 to 15 range with a high degree of certainty. I guess we’ll know more, once the comments start rolling in from the other nobles, and once Rozemyne can see herself in a mirror.
I’m really looking forward to how her retainers react to her sudden transformation. Rozemyne still has some classes right? Like she has to do her dedication whirl? It’s not like she can dip to Ehrenfest while they try to keep the situation private, but they’re gonna have to. The Archduke Conference is mere months away, when she’ll be adopted as a royal.
This really reminds me of when she was in the jureve but in reverse. In the jureve, she was asleep for years while everyone else developed both physically and mentally. Now, while in the Garden of Beginnings, she’s aged presumably about 3 years, and her mind’s been filled with knowledge. while for everyone else, it’s been less than a bell’s time.
God, what of her commoner family too? Their weak little daughter/sister has suddenly hit a magical growth spurt and is suddenly a young woman. Oh I truly do look forward to the POVs for this volume!
Also, now she has access to the information necessary to warn Sylvester about Georgine’s ability to steal Ehrenfest’s foundation. That fancy new tablet should help her in finding it, but how will she warn him, and what will he do to prevent such a thing happening. Georgine really represents the old ways of doing things; even though Ahrensbach is normally a higher ranking duchy then Ehrenfest, her teachings were the ways of the middle-ranking backwater duchy she grew up in. Her taking over Ehrenfest would be in every way regressive for the Duchy, not to mention much of her archducal family would likely be killed in response.
Keep in mind that the gods are clearly aware of her time as Myne, so they would age her up to her actual age, not her noble age, meaning that Rozemyne went from looking younger than her known age, to looking one year older than she officially is. ^^
Myne, back in her day, was already 2 to 3 years behind in growth. The one year in the coma kind of balances out with her noble age being one year younger than her true age. But even after the first jureve, we were told that while Rozemyne started growing a bit, it was still slower than other children her age. So put that all together, and I would not be surprised if it was 4 years or even more she was behind and given in one big spurt now.
Same here on the reations. I’m looking forward to see, which of Rozemyne’s retainers and friends manage to just take it in their stride, because of how used they are to the impossible and inplausible happening to and around her, and how many jaws will have to be picked up the floor.
Considering that from her letter to Grausam & Co she indicated that she had to look for the entrance to the Foundation, just moving that entrance should be enough to shut her plans down. Naturally that isn’t a perfect solution either, since her first move would naturally be to assassinate Sylvester and only then take over the Foundation. Her discovering that she can’t access the Foundation any longer is going to be little comfort if Syl is already dead at the time. So I think that’s what they need to guard against more, the assassination.
But Georgine is under real time pressure now. Her plan hinges on the Zent being without a Grutrissheit and thus unable to just remake the Ehrenfest foundation and give it to someone else. The moment there is a true Zent, the only thing she can expect from murdering Sylvester and stealing his foundation, is a public execution. So unless she can prevent anyone from gaining a Grutrissheit, to assure that Sigiswald will become the next fake king, she needs to act fast. Of course if that were to happen and nobody is going to get a full Grutrissheit soon, the country is going to fall apart anyway, but right now Georgine does not know that and thus probably thinks that a fake king is to her advantage.
I wonder what will happen if the country foundation were to fail. Could the Aubs hold their duchies together to form a patchwork of effectively seperate mini-countries, or do the duchy foundations require the existence of the country foundation?
I’m seeing this sentiment a lot here that she’s finally looking her age, when there’s nothing to indicate that’s what Erwärmen/Anwachs was aiming for. Erwärmen only said that her vessel was too small to contain the Book of Mestionora, not that she was too small for her age. For all we know if she had already looked her age (noble age or true age) then Erwärmen may have still had her grow a bit more.
All we really know is that she now has a large enough “vessel” (presumably a large enough capacity for mana/schtappe) for the Book of Mestionora.
After letting out the High Bishop’s robes, she mentions that they still cover her legs completely, but makes no mention of having to hike it up to not trip on it. And that robe was made to acommodate her expected height for the entire tenure as High Bishop, which was always intended to come to an end at 15, when she comes of age.
So regardless of what Erwaermen and Anwachs intended, her looking close to her actual age was certainly the outcome.
But you do make a good point. Since we don’t know the full intent of the gods, we can not assume that she now looks exactly 14, just because that’s her true age. We only know for certain, that she still fits in the HIgh Bishop’s robes. But since Corinna couldn’t just measure how tall she would be in the future, she could only have spitballed it. So the robes might have ended up either a bit too small or too big for Rozemyne, once she came of age, they might have incorporated some extra safety margin, or not… plenty of fuzzy factors that might shift her current apparent age one way or the other, but only to a certain degree.
I think we can still assume she now looks something within the 13 to 15 range with a high degree of certainty. I guess we’ll know more, once the comments start rolling in from the other nobles, and once Rozemyne can see herself in a mirror.