It was interesting to see Effa’s perspective on the noble’s quarter. She never really knew how much money Myne had even back in her commoner days either. Poor Gunther has a crappy job, but all to defend his home. Seems that Ferdinand was a lot angrier with Letizia than I suspected as well.
Anyway, really looking forward to continuing the main story next week!
I was also surprised at how mad Ferdinand was at Letizia. Guess it’s part of his naturally suspicious nature.
I think it is very well within his established peronality. He really has absolutely no time for useless and/or stupid people. Just remember his reaction to Wilfried’s first half day of switching places with Rozemyne. The imcompetence and ignorance Letizia seemingly displayed was in excess of what Wilfried showed. After all Ferdinand didn’t seem to have realized that Leonzio dugged and partially brainwashed Letizia. I hope he will learn of this fact and adjust his opinion accordingly.
I wonder what will happen if/when Gunther and Hartmut meet. It’ll either be a moment of joy, where they both gush about Rozemyne’s greatness, or a moment of extreme tension, with both of them being jealous of the other and exchanging barbed remarks about how Rozemyne favours them more. Either way it’d be hilarious to read about. ^^
Hartmut as the High Priest already interacts with the soldiers. Gunther knows he’s loyal to Rozemyne, and Hartmut knows Gunther is her dad.
I loved this section - Effa’s point of view, learning just how far her daughter has risen; Gunther learning his sickly daughter is now leading a squadron of knights; and Ferdinand, hearing phrases like there’s no point in saving a country without you in it, and his thoughts about how he’s never been anyone’s top priority before.
I am even more curious about the circumstances of his adoption, though - it seems he was smuggled out? So maybe he was someone’s top priority, once, just before he remembers. I wonder how Aub Ehrenfest became involved in that - and I guess his sister? Did someone just decide to stop sending Lanzenave mana (and man, what a weird way to do it!) or did someone become fond of him in particular? And then what did happen to his mother?
For that matter, I assume the death of the Aub’s sister / Ferdinand’s guardian was at Veronica’s hands.
Ferdinand’s bitterness about being sent to the Temple instead of Veronica - I think that is pretty interesting and very human though also probably wrong. I don’t think the temple could have contained Veronica or protected Ferdinand from her, and the damage she would have done getting out would have been enormous.
Hmm… there was a mention about some incident over a delivery of feystones souring the relations between Lanzenave and Yurgenschmidt. Do you think the issue might have been Ferdinand’s feystone not being delivered?
Rozmyne committing war atrocities so bad that not even her own dad believes she is capable of doing.
Ferdinand is so detached from the concept of kindness and unconditional love that he is baffled when someone shows him just an ounce of it. Interestingly he is so well trained in containing his own confusion due to years of experience with certain gremlin that he swiftly pivots towards destroying archnsbach.
I think barrels of poop is ideal, maximum insult and also trackability, while being completely reversible for any innocents. I get why Gunther finds it shocking though!
Atrocity? I think pouring excrement on the nobles is a rather nice thing. I’d have filled those barrels up with grease, pitch, lamp oil and whatever other flammable, but still non-magical liquid was available and then tossed a torch after it.
Georgine is lucky Myne is not well versed in things that would violate the Geneva convention, otherwise those invaders would have a distinctly worse future ahead of them.
