PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

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.