this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
16 points (100.0% liked)
PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm
243 readers
4 users here now
Navigation Links:
A Space for discussing the weekly chapter releases.
Even though this is a separate community please be aware that Post titles and in some cases the first few lines of text will be displayed in the local and all feeds, so avoid spoilers there as much as possible anyway. Thanks.
synonyms
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Honzuki no Gekokujou
- 『本好きの下剋上』
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Guess we're getting lots of side stories in this volume.
Rozemyne gets to see first hand how the inability to redraw duchy borders has made Werkestock's giebes incredibly desperate. Their excuses aren't likely to save them from prison though.
The epilogue was some interesting backstory for Georgine's character. Can't help but feel a bit of sympathy for what her parents made her endure and her motivation was just trying to earn their approval instead of actually serving the duchy. When Sylvester entered the picture and Georgine decided to adopt Veronica's methods is when she really started going off the deep end. Veronica really is the cause of so many issues for so many people in this story. Also didn't expect Georgine to use the sewers to bypass security.
I like Giebe Kirnberger. He seems like a guy that really thinks things through and has interesting insights. I imagine a lot more Ehrenfest nobles will soon share his concerns about the future of the duchy.
Prison? Well, if they can be tried solely as Ahrensbach citizens within their duchy and thus Rozemyne is able to decide their fates maybe, but depending on interpretation, the Werkerstock nobles might well be found guilty of treason against the crown, for working with Georgine. If the latter happens, then I'm certain that Trauerqual will have no choice, but to execute them, just like back during the days of the post-civil war purge, and Rozemyne won't be able to help them either.
Rozemyne was already aub for two days when nobles treated as her citizens (even though they're probably still registered as Werkestock) attached another duchy, using weapons explicitly banned from warfare by the Zent. Both Sylvester and Trauerqual have legal rights to demand that Rozemyne needs to punish them harshly.
Certainly true, but Sylvester is very unlikely to do that, knowing fully well how averse Rozemyne is to hurting others. And Trauerqual made it very clear that in his opinion, everyone including the royal family should do what the holder of the Grutrissheit says, so I don't think he would make any demands like that. If they manage to convince the rest of noble society that this war was an affair between duchies and seperate from Detlinde's rebellion against the crown, there is a good chance I think, to allow Rozemyne to deal with it as she sees fit. But that's a really big if....
If however the public perception is that Georgine's attack was part of the rebellion, you are definitely right, that things are unlikely to stay in Rozemyne's control, albeit even then I don't think it'll be Trauerqual and Sylvester who'll be the ones to cause issues. The bigger issue is probably Klassenberg. After all it was the Eglantine's grandfather/adoptive father the now previous Aub Klassenberg, who was the main driving factor, behind forcing Trauerqual to enact the purge and he still has a lot of political power in his duchy even now, after stepping down.
Then there are also the people of Immerdink (I think), who suffered multiple dead children at the Ternisbefallen attack, who'll likely be clamouring for revenge, what with Werkerstock also being the place were the Ternisbefallen almost asuredly came from.