Rozemyne will take on even the gods themselves in her quest to rescue Ferdinand. She speeds to Ahrensbach faster than Steifebrise, and as the battle against Lanzenave commences, Georgine finally begins her invasion. To war!
I’m surprised that everyone, including Ferdinand and Rozemyne themselves, seems to have forgotten something: Ferdinand is no longer her guardian! He stopped being her guardian, the moment he left Ehrenfest, so that makes his Faux Pas even worse…
On the plus side, considering how the supposed future Aub Detlinde, cavorted with Leonzio, Ferdinand’s indisgressions here seem a whole lot more tame by comparison and also far more excusable due to the whole situation. Now I have a scene in my head, where an Ahrensbach noble tries to censure Ferdinand for acting so “lascivous” toward Rozemyne and him claiming that after seeing Detlinde acting out with the Lanzenavians without being told off, he just had mistakenly come to the conclusions that Ahrensbach was a place without morals and thus let his own manners slip and the Ahrensbach noble being unable to come up with a retort, just slinking away in shame. ^^
But leaving the rumors aside, Ferdinand no longer being her guardian and still ordering her around has other problems too. Technically Ferdinand now has absolutely zero authority to forbid Rozemyne from doing anything. She is Aub Ahrensbach. He is a “visiting” Ehrenfest archduke candidate. He is below her in both noble and duchy rank and no longer her guardian. The only legal connection they still have is, that he is her uncle via adoption. So under what authority is he giving her outright orders? And her following those orders, despite him having no authority over her, doesn’t exactly make her look good either, albeit Clarissa’s and Harmut’s brainwashing of the Ahrensbach nobility is coutering that point at least within Ahrensbach quite nicely for now.
Likewise I would not at all be surprised if some of the… less future oriented Ahrensbach nobles would rightfully point out that Ferdinand has no authority in Ahrensbach anymore. He only had authority through being Detlinde’s fiancé, but neither is he that any longer, nor does Detlinde hold any power in the duchy anymore.
It might not matter much in the heat of the crisis, were everyone is too busy with far more important things, but it will surely become a very relevant and potentially highly disruptive issue, once the dust starts to settle. They really need to address these issues soon, preferably before they start biting them in the butt.
I do wonder if Roz is Aub how she would handle scenarios where she is forced to prioritize one Dutchy over the other.
For example currently Roz could easly dump Arinsbach since her family and medal are in Erinfest.
However say the Gutenberg are transfered to arinsbach, if she was presented with same scenario prioritize Erinfest or Arinsbach I wonder how she would choose.
Prioritize Ahrensbach since that’s her job, but also make it clear to everyone that Ehrenfest is an ally and an attack on one is an attack on both.
Everyone is going to assume that Ehrenfest is her subservient vassal now and she’ll spend years denying it and claiming that they’re equal partners. Even though it’s an open secret that Charlotte Aub Ehrenfest, among countless others, has signed a contract to never become Rozemyne’s enemy, so Ehrenfest is pretty much at Rozemyne’s mercy.
Ferdinand doesn’t have any legal authority over Rozemyne at this point and I am pretty sure that Rozemyne knows this. She chooses to give him authority and follow his direction in the role of her most trusted advisor, which he is and remains.
I think it would be clear to anyone in Ahrensbach that Rozemyne is giving him that authority and I can’t imagine anyone from Ahrensbach even questioning it particularly.
Considering how stubborn and idiotic at least some parts of Yurgenschmidt’s nobility are, when it comes to authority and status and all that jazz, I’m sure there will be some nobles, sooner or later, who will have an issue with Aub Ahrensbach taking what appears to be orders from some “random” Ehrenfest noble, even if it means unintentionally sabotaging themselves. Just look at Fraularm…
I’m surprised that everyone, including Ferdinand and Rozemyne themselves, seems to have forgotten something: Ferdinand is no longer her guardian! He stopped being her guardian, the moment he left Ehrenfest, so that makes his Faux Pas even worse…
On the plus side, considering how the supposed future Aub Detlinde, cavorted with Leonzio, Ferdinand’s indisgressions here seem a whole lot more tame by comparison and also far more excusable due to the whole situation. Now I have a scene in my head, where an Ahrensbach noble tries to censure Ferdinand for acting so “lascivous” toward Rozemyne and him claiming that after seeing Detlinde acting out with the Lanzenavians without being told off, he just had mistakenly come to the conclusions that Ahrensbach was a place without morals and thus let his own manners slip and the Ahrensbach noble being unable to come up with a retort, just slinking away in shame. ^^
But leaving the rumors aside, Ferdinand no longer being her guardian and still ordering her around has other problems too. Technically Ferdinand now has absolutely zero authority to forbid Rozemyne from doing anything. She is Aub Ahrensbach. He is a “visiting” Ehrenfest archduke candidate. He is below her in both noble and duchy rank and no longer her guardian. The only legal connection they still have is, that he is her uncle via adoption. So under what authority is he giving her outright orders? And her following those orders, despite him having no authority over her, doesn’t exactly make her look good either, albeit Clarissa’s and Harmut’s brainwashing of the Ahrensbach nobility is coutering that point at least within Ahrensbach quite nicely for now.
Likewise I would not at all be surprised if some of the… less future oriented Ahrensbach nobles would rightfully point out that Ferdinand has no authority in Ahrensbach anymore. He only had authority through being Detlinde’s fiancé, but neither is he that any longer, nor does Detlinde hold any power in the duchy anymore.
It might not matter much in the heat of the crisis, were everyone is too busy with far more important things, but it will surely become a very relevant and potentially highly disruptive issue, once the dust starts to settle. They really need to address these issues soon, preferably before they start biting them in the butt.
I do wonder if Roz is Aub how she would handle scenarios where she is forced to prioritize one Dutchy over the other.
For example currently Roz could easly dump Arinsbach since her family and medal are in Erinfest.
However say the Gutenberg are transfered to arinsbach, if she was presented with same scenario prioritize Erinfest or Arinsbach I wonder how she would choose.
Prioritize Ahrensbach since that’s her job, but also make it clear to everyone that Ehrenfest is an ally and an attack on one is an attack on both.
Everyone is going to assume that Ehrenfest is her subservient vassal now and she’ll spend years denying it and claiming that they’re equal partners. Even though it’s an open secret that Charlotte Aub Ehrenfest, among countless others, has signed a contract to never become Rozemyne’s enemy, so Ehrenfest is pretty much at Rozemyne’s mercy.
Ferdinand doesn’t have any legal authority over Rozemyne at this point and I am pretty sure that Rozemyne knows this. She chooses to give him authority and follow his direction in the role of her most trusted advisor, which he is and remains.
I think it would be clear to anyone in Ahrensbach that Rozemyne is giving him that authority and I can’t imagine anyone from Ahrensbach even questioning it particularly.
Considering how stubborn and idiotic at least some parts of Yurgenschmidt’s nobility are, when it comes to authority and status and all that jazz, I’m sure there will be some nobles, sooner or later, who will have an issue with Aub Ahrensbach taking what appears to be orders from some “random” Ehrenfest noble, even if it means unintentionally sabotaging themselves. Just look at Fraularm…