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Yep, I can definitely imagine her wanting to see Sylvester's face when she freezes his heart and pushes him into the valley of despair. It's going to be a challenge to take Ehrenfest's foundation without first draining it and destroying everything though, right? The only other way would be for her to replace Sylvester's mana with her own? Maybe she could drain it like 99% without everything crumbling then add her mana. Not really sure what the rules are.
If it's like with Schwartz and Weiss or most other magic tools, then she only needs to make sure there's more of her mana in it, than there is of Sylvester's. So draining some of it out to make it easier to get the majority is probably a good idea, but there should not be any need to completely empty it.
If she has enough mana/rejuvenation potions to spare, not draining any of Sylvester's mana and just making sure she pours in more than he has in it, would even be useful, since it'd mean she has more time until she needs to recharge it again.
But this made me think of something else: If she succeeds in taking Ehrenfest's Foundation, she will have to remain in Ehrenfest and will be unable to attend the rest of the Archduke Conference. The Foundation needs to be charged daily, and unlike Sylvester, she won't have Bonifatius, Florencia, Wilfried and Charlotte to take up the slack while she's in the Sovereignty. All of Georgine's relatives other than Alstede are either married off to other duchies, dead or on Sylvester's side, so she doesn't have much of a potential archducal family to charge the Foundation in her absence.
I somehow doubt that Alstede and her husband would be able to keep the Foundation charged on their own, without having done so before... we've seen how well the archnobles did in their first Dedicaiton Rituals, despite being guided by Rozemyne. And that's only if Georgine is willing to take them and they are willing to go with her in the first place. Being promoted to archduke candidate status is all nice and good, but there's no guarantee that Georgine isn't going to be punished after all by the royal family, so going with her is a risk. Especially now that the resurgance of religious ceremonies makes it all the more likely that someone might get a Grutrissheit and become a true Zent.
Interesting... If it was like Schwartz and Weiss it seems like other members of the archduke family would be at risk of taking over the foundation on accident. Rozemyne and Ferdinand would likely have put more mana into the foundation than Sylvester at some point. Ferdinand would easily be able to take over Ahrensbach's foundation too.
I suppose Georgine could adopt members into the new archduke family if she acquired the foundation. She probably has enough name sworn still kicking around to fill in for her occasional absence.
The more I think about it, the more I think maybe Georgine might have been trying to just secretly destroy Ehrenfest's foundation. If for instance she had her name sworn destroy it while at the Archduke Conference then she'd have a solid alibi and she'd still get to gloat to Sylvester which would have no duchy to return to and forever be known as an Aub that failed to protect his duchy. What would be better than killing Sylvester? Keeping him around to point and laugh at. Yes, Ahrensbach would still be a declining duchy, but at least it wouldn't be Ehrenfest.
Another problem Georgine faces is her daughter. The moment Letizia becomes the archduchess, Detlinde will be on the chopping block and as her mother, Georgine along with her by association. If she becomes the Aub Ehrenfest, while Detlinde remains behind in Ahrensbach, that would probably put enough distance between them and make Georgine too indispensible to execute. If she remains in Ahrensbach after destroying Ehrenfest however, I think her life is on a timer.
I suppose she could try to make Detlinde the permanent Aub, but that would mean defying a royal decree... and I don't think anyone, Georgine included, would want Detlinde as an Aub, especially now that Leonzio seems to have wrested her away from the tenuous control Georgine had her under.
As an archduke family member, Georgine also can't become a Sovereign noble, until after Letizia is made the full Aub, so she couldn't escape guilt by association that way either, unless the royals delay Detlinde's execution long enough for Georgine to work something out for herself, which I find highly unlikely.