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Wow, so much awesomeness for one week! I like that Rozemyne's Grutrissheit divine instrument is a tablet with a search function. Not sure how she's going to explain all this to everyone else. "Somehow I got big by offering mana to the Mestionora statue in the library." Rozemyne being a mana chameleon is kind of an interesting development. I wonder if she's going to inform Ferdinand at all or just continue as if everything is normal. In my headcanon Ferdinand's estate will now be known as "La Quinta".
Unless the whole enviroment is only symbolic and this all took place in the same way how the inside of the shrines seems to exist outside of time, she also needs to explain how she got teleported from the Library into the Farthest Hall. Speaking of which, I wonder if Hildebrand has already locked the chapel. Because if he did, Rozemyne will either have to send a rather awkward Ordonnanz, escape through the hole above the tree in Lessy in a reverse of what Ferdinand did, or be stuck there for a week until the mednoble ritual is due.
Although the way she entered was similar to the shrines, the more you think about it the more differences there are. With the shrines she entered by simply touching the doors compared to giving mana to a magic tool. In the shrines she was compelled to pray and (as evidenced by Eglantine's time in one shrine) had the mana pulled out of her regardless of if she wanted to give it or not whereas in this area she still has free will and can act on her own. She seems to form the environment she most desires by putting a little mana into the ground, which she did in order to probe her surroundings.
I always read her time praying in the shrines as her not having been physically moved to a location to pray while time is stopped but rather that being a vision of how she would have subconsciously offered mana to the gods while that mana is suddenly and quickly pulled from her body by contact with the shrine.
Ahhh, so many questions now...
Since Rozemyne and Ferdinand's mana is so similar would magic contracts, citizenship and hidden room registration affect both of them? It seems that the magic ink they make is slightly different still, so perhaps not? Still close enough that a god couldn't tell them apart though.
I wonder if Ferdinand knew that Rozemyne was marked by Ewigeliebe. Still very curious why he needs all that maximal quality paper.
Will Rozemyne be able to fix Yurgenschmidt's nearly dry foundation even with the holes in her knowledge? Will Georgine assault Ehrenfest's foundation while Rozemyne is away at the Royal Academy?
Gah! Can't wait for next week!
Considering how the explanation for the Mark of Ewigeliebe is showing up in Rozemyne's Grutrissheit, we know for sure that it wasn't part of the 30 to 40 percent of knowledge he got, so he would have had to gain the knowledge by other means. But he said at some point that he knew barely anything about devouring children and it's not a topic likely to be covered by any nobles, especially not the texts in the underground archive, so I suspect he isn't aware of it.