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?
Switching sides and pleading for mercy… I’m torn about this. On one hand it is the best chance she has for getting out of this more or less intact, but then again, Alstede probably only knows the official version of the civil war purge and thus likely believes Trauerqual to be utterly merciless, never having learned that he tried to avoid it, but couldn’t stand up to his allies. On top of that, even if she was only following orders, she still defied direct orders of the royal family and conspired with foreign invaders and traitors to the crown, for which I strongly suspect the punishment to be death, or rather more likely the kind of erasure that Ferdinand enacted on the Hasse traitors.
This fear of being killed either way, might well make her fight to the bitter end. I hope that won’t happen, but it would make absolute sense.
Then again, if she wanted to get gains on the pro-royals side, locking the teleporter gate and trapping the Lanzenave king in the Royal Academy and freeing Letizia would be pretty big pro-royal family deeds and might just be enough to earn some mercy. Even so I’m thinking more along the lines of life-long imprisonment in an ivory tower or some similar structure. But since the alternatives are deathes of varying levels of gruesomeness, that’s probably still the preferable choice for her.
If she can feel that the foundation is being dyed and notices that it happened in so short of a time (while remembering how long it took her), she might consider the enemy is just impossibly powerful that not fighting might at least save her husband and child from being purged
Or make her even more scared and commit family suicide, to escape whatever what she believes Trauerqual would put them through. Again I would prefer it not to end up this way, but it would not surprise me in the least.
Then again, they have a way to escape: They could try to take a ship and flee to Lanzenave. If they were interested in Letizia and her female retainers, to get more mana-rich blook into the country, then they probably would welcome her and her family.
Switching sides and pleading for mercy… I’m torn about this. On one hand it is the best chance she has for getting out of this more or less intact, but then again, Alstede probably only knows the official version of the civil war purge and thus likely believes Trauerqual to be utterly merciless, never having learned that he tried to avoid it, but couldn’t stand up to his allies. On top of that, even if she was only following orders, she still defied direct orders of the royal family and conspired with foreign invaders and traitors to the crown, for which I strongly suspect the punishment to be death, or rather more likely the kind of erasure that Ferdinand enacted on the Hasse traitors.
This fear of being killed either way, might well make her fight to the bitter end. I hope that won’t happen, but it would make absolute sense.
Then again, if she wanted to get gains on the pro-royals side, locking the teleporter gate and trapping the Lanzenave king in the Royal Academy and freeing Letizia would be pretty big pro-royal family deeds and might just be enough to earn some mercy. Even so I’m thinking more along the lines of life-long imprisonment in an ivory tower or some similar structure. But since the alternatives are deathes of varying levels of gruesomeness, that’s probably still the preferable choice for her.
If she can feel that the foundation is being dyed and notices that it happened in so short of a time (while remembering how long it took her), she might consider the enemy is just impossibly powerful that not fighting might at least save her husband and child from being purged
Or make her even more scared and commit family suicide, to escape whatever what she believes Trauerqual would put them through. Again I would prefer it not to end up this way, but it would not surprise me in the least.
Then again, they have a way to escape: They could try to take a ship and flee to Lanzenave. If they were interested in Letizia and her female retainers, to get more mana-rich blook into the country, then they probably would welcome her and her family.
Not sure if Alstede wants her daughter to be welcomed in Lanzenave.