Lieseleta pov is top notch. Nice to learn more about her circumstances.
I wish we would have gotten a one detail on her doctor courses though.
The doctor specialization is part of the scholar course. So does that mean that Lieseleta took a dual education of both attendant and scholar, or that it is possible to take scholar specialization courses, even when you aren’t going through the scholar course?
We know it is possible to take classes outside of your course from the first pre-pub of this book. Sylvester says one possible future for Wilfried is to take some knight classes and become the knight commander.
I interpreted this as Sylvester suggesting that Wilfried could do the full knight’s course, in addition to the archduke candidate course, just like Rozemyne is doing archduke and scholar courses and Ferdinand did all three of those in parallel.
“[…] You could even take your pick of classes from the knight course and strive to become the knight commander […].”
I’m going to hope they have some prerequisites to fulfill, but certainly does seem like you could dabble in a few classes.
Not a bad move on Georgine’s part. Not only did she manage to make sure that those knights would not return to Ehrenfest, where they might be subjected to a memory search and reveal information on her shady dealings, but she managed Ehrenfest look bad in the bargain.
I think Sylvester managed to at least partially turn that around and make at least some of the sovereign nobles suspicious of Georgine.
I wonder just how much those dead knights were involved with. They most likely were the ones who drugged the others that then attacked the bride-stealing ditter in their stupor and I would not be the least bit surprised, if they were also involved in smuggling at least the first Ternisbefallen, that attacked Ehrenfest’s gathering spot, into the academy. Maybe they even helped the rebels orchestrate the attempt at Trauerqual later, at Georgine’s behest.
By telling them to attack Detlinde, it would be pretty much guaranteed that her stupid daughter would demand their immediate execusion, without needing any further intervention from Georgine herself, meaning she could feign complete innocence on the execution. And as a free bonus in Georgine’s eyes, she was able to further torment her daugther and undermine her authority, by having her excluded from the inquiry.
Sorry Syl. Prince Sigi is actually just dumb.
But blindly trusts his scholars, so convincing the prince himself would probably not have mattered either way. ^^
Ah so we did get another funeral chapter. This one delved into the tensions between Ahrensbach, Enhrenfest, and the Sovereignty. Tough to know if it was Detlinde’s fault for the immediate execution or if that was the plan all along. Also tough to know if it was to hide something as Sylvester suspected, or if it was just to deny Ehrenfest the resources and create more unrule.
I can’t believe anyone takes Detlinde seriously in this arrangement though, when she’s excluded from something that serious and it’s directly commented on can anyone really put any faith in her leading Ahrensbach? Is Sigiswald that dumb?
Also there seems to have been an mis-write in what Elvira commented on during the private discussion with Lieseleta and her father. She refers to Rozemyne as an adopted princess when I’m pretty sure that much wasn’t being revealed to the father.
“You would do well to keep this to yourself, but Rozemyne is moving to the Sovereignty at the king’s request.” Father inhaled sharply before Elvira dryly explained the circumstances
Sure, which doesn’t mean adopted as a princess.
I would assume that was contained in the “dryly explained the circumstances.”
It’s also rather obvious from context. The only way for an under-aged noble to move to the Sovereignty is via adoption, there is very little chance for the king personally intervening to have her adopted by some other sovereign noble outside the royal family and Sylvester would NEVER have agreed to such an adoption anyway. So that leaves only an adoption by either the king, or one of his sons, but with them being so close to Rozemyne in age, the latter is barely and option either.
I mean the talk of the town though has been her moving to serve as High Bishop in the temple though, so it’s not obvious.
Except that they made it very clear to the Leisegang Elders, that Rozemyne would definitely not become the Sovereign High Bishop, which should have squashed that particular rumour quite thoroughly. And I think Barthold is too smart to try to keep that rumour alive, after being shot down so hard the first time around.
But this made me think… even if she was made the Sovereign High Bishop, wouldn’t she still be a princess in parallel, on the virtue of being the king’s adopted daughter? After all she is both an archduke candidate (so duchy equivalent of a princess) and the local high bishop in Ehrenfest at the same time. The two positions shouldn’t be exclusive, or at least not for someone not yet of age.
Through process of elimination they might be able to arrive at that conclusion, I wasn’t aware it was something they were willing to directly confirm, though. Maybe the situation is a bit different when dealing with direct relatives to retainers though as in this case. The only necessary part Lieseleta’s father needs to know is that he needs to find a replacement head of house - the specifics of Rozemyne’s position isn’t relevant to that.
Today’s chapters were sweet. I have a gut feeling that Georgine will execute a coup soon.
And so closes this chapter. Can’t wait till we get to Volume 7! 😃
I hope we’ll get to see Melchior’s first ceremony, maybe even with him as the POV character in the prologue, but I somehow doubt it.
Though we should get Dirk’s noble baptism and debut, before they are off to the Royal Academy again, to give the royal more headaches. :P
If I had been Sylvester, I think I’d have thrown out an additional little stab at Georgine. When talking about how she might have known the ex-Ehrenfest sovereign knights, I would have added something along the lines “I hope you didn’t lose any of your many name-sworn in the incident.” or maybe even make that “yet another of your many name-sworn” to imply they got rid of several within Ehrenfest.
Even someone as dense as Sigiswald would surely get the implication and Raublut most certainly would.
