The Archduke Conference has come to an end, but Ehrenfest’s archducal family is still reeling from the troubles it brought. Rozemyne has one year before she must depart for the Sovereignty, and those in her service have an important choice to make.
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
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.
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.
That is certainly true, but being given an unreasonable order like that without hearing the reason for it would have been bound to cause friction, especially when the recipient of the order is already stressed out and frustrated over another archnoble family making a series of unreasonable demands to him. People cann make strange decisions, when put under a lot of pressure and/or stress, so if he can be trusted to keep his mouth shut, letting him in on the truth seems like a good move.
Then again, the whole thing is supposed to become official in less than a year anyway, so the risk of accidental leaks is probably not that high. And with Elvira being either among, or being the single most powerful woman in Ehrenfest, he’d be a fool to make her his enemy by pulling some stunt with the information intentionally.
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.
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.
That is certainly true, but being given an unreasonable order like that without hearing the reason for it would have been bound to cause friction, especially when the recipient of the order is already stressed out and frustrated over another archnoble family making a series of unreasonable demands to him. People cann make strange decisions, when put under a lot of pressure and/or stress, so if he can be trusted to keep his mouth shut, letting him in on the truth seems like a good move.
Then again, the whole thing is supposed to become official in less than a year anyway, so the risk of accidental leaks is probably not that high. And with Elvira being either among, or being the single most powerful woman in Ehrenfest, he’d be a fool to make her his enemy by pulling some stunt with the information intentionally.