Last week began with Rozemyne arranging for her retainers to come get her from the Farthest Hall. She postponed discussing her absence with the royal family until the Archduke Conference. Rozemyne discovered that she had missed the rest of the school year and the feast celebrating spring had just taken place.
Upon returning to Ehrenfest, Rozemyne meets with Sylvester to inform him how Georgine could take Ehrenfest’s foundation using the temple’s bible key. Sylvester believes that Georgine will make her move during Spring Prayer.
Rozemyne returns to the temple to investigate her bible’s key. While there she sends Damuel and Angelica to gather information and inform the lower city guard. Matthias and Bonifatius are also sent to check for signs of activity in Gerlach. Rozemyne determines that the key to her bible is in fact Ahrensbach’s bible key and was swapped when Viscountess Dahldolf invaded the temple. Rozemyne plans to immediately report her findings to Sylvester.
Will Rozemyne’s retainers discover that Georgine and her allies are near by? What plans will Sylvester make to defend Ehrenfest’s foundation? What else do you predict will happen this week?
Interesting… If it was like Schwartz and Weiss it seems like other members of the archduke family would be at risk of taking over the foundation on accident. Rozemyne and Ferdinand would likely have put more mana into the foundation than Sylvester at some point. Ferdinand would easily be able to take over Ahrensbach’s foundation too.
I suppose Georgine could adopt members into the new archduke family if she acquired the foundation. She probably has enough name sworn still kicking around to fill in for her occasional absence.
The more I think about it, the more I think maybe Georgine might have been trying to just secretly destroy Ehrenfest’s foundation. If for instance she had her name sworn destroy it while at the Archduke Conference then she’d have a solid alibi and she’d still get to gloat to Sylvester which would have no duchy to return to and forever be known as an Aub that failed to protect his duchy. What would be better than killing Sylvester? Keeping him around to point and laugh at. Yes, Ahrensbach would still be a declining duchy, but at least it wouldn’t be Ehrenfest.
Another problem Georgine faces is her daughter. The moment Letizia becomes the archduchess, Detlinde will be on the chopping block and as her mother, Georgine along with her by association. If she becomes the Aub Ehrenfest, while Detlinde remains behind in Ahrensbach, that would probably put enough distance between them and make Georgine too indispensible to execute. If she remains in Ahrensbach after destroying Ehrenfest however, I think her life is on a timer.
I suppose she could try to make Detlinde the permanent Aub, but that would mean defying a royal decree… and I don’t think anyone, Georgine included, would want Detlinde as an Aub, especially now that Leonzio seems to have wrested her away from the tenuous control Georgine had her under.
As an archduke family member, Georgine also can’t become a Sovereign noble, until after Letizia is made the full Aub, so she couldn’t escape guilt by association that way either, unless the royals delay Detlinde’s execution long enough for Georgine to work something out for herself, which I find highly unlikely.