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?
The moment Sylvester announced Dirk’s name to the gathered nobles something hit me: When Myne was turned into Rozemyne, they made a big deal about noble names needing a certain length and yet Dirk is about as short as names get. Isn’t that giving away his origins? Why didn’t they give him a new, longer name too, like they did with Rozemyne? Though I guess the stigma of being exposed as an ex-commoner isn’t much different from being believed to be a child of criminals, so it might not be a big deal to them.
I guess Dirk having wind as his dominant element, means he is actually an autumn child and not one born in winter, as the red ring given to him would suggest. With him being given to the temple without any information, they probably got their guess at his birth season wrong when picking the ring colour. But considering how devouring children grow slower, it makes sense that their estimate would be off by a season and he’s slightly older than they thought.
I’m surprised that Bertram has only two natural affinities. With his almost-archnoble mana capacity, I would have expected him to have three or maybe even four. I guess Laurenz family is quite a bit behind Matthias family in regards to mana. I wonder if that means Laurenz also had only two natural affinities, before giving his name to Rozemyne.
That’s what they assumed, when Dirk was handed to them, but that doesn’t mean it is so. Babies do not all come out of the womb at a single standardized size. He could have even been a preterm birth. Not very likely, considering they already have high infant mortality, even with regular pregnancies, but we can’t rule it out entirely.
On top of that, the people who received him in the temple made this assumption based on how normal babies grow, BEFORE they knew he was a devouring child. A body filled with mana grows slower, so that throws estimations off even more, especially since there too, there is no set rate, but it depends on how much mana the child has, how well it can compress the mana instinctively, whether it can get help to drain mana and if so, when and how often.
Put it all together and them being off by three or four month in their estimate, seems quite plausible.
The moment Sylvester announced Dirk’s name to the gathered nobles something hit me: When Myne was turned into Rozemyne, they made a big deal about noble names needing a certain length and yet Dirk is about as short as names get. Isn’t that giving away his origins? Why didn’t they give him a new, longer name too, like they did with Rozemyne? Though I guess the stigma of being exposed as an ex-commoner isn’t much different from being believed to be a child of criminals, so it might not be a big deal to them.
I guess Dirk having wind as his dominant element, means he is actually an autumn child and not one born in winter, as the red ring given to him would suggest. With him being given to the temple without any information, they probably got their guess at his birth season wrong when picking the ring colour. But considering how devouring children grow slower, it makes sense that their estimate would be off by a season and he’s slightly older than they thought.
I’m surprised that Bertram has only two natural affinities. With his almost-archnoble mana capacity, I would have expected him to have three or maybe even four. I guess Laurenz family is quite a bit behind Matthias family in regards to mana. I wonder if that means Laurenz also had only two natural affinities, before giving his name to Rozemyne.
Dirk was born end of winter or beginning of spring. He’s slightly older than Kamil, who was born just after spring prayer.
That’s what they assumed, when Dirk was handed to them, but that doesn’t mean it is so. Babies do not all come out of the womb at a single standardized size. He could have even been a preterm birth. Not very likely, considering they already have high infant mortality, even with regular pregnancies, but we can’t rule it out entirely.
On top of that, the people who received him in the temple made this assumption based on how normal babies grow, BEFORE they knew he was a devouring child. A body filled with mana grows slower, so that throws estimations off even more, especially since there too, there is no set rate, but it depends on how much mana the child has, how well it can compress the mana instinctively, whether it can get help to drain mana and if so, when and how often.
Put it all together and them being off by three or four month in their estimate, seems quite plausible.