PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

I kinda like the name apprentice blues (kinda has cute ring to it).

Hmm.... that idea does have potential. There are of course many unknowns that would need to be found out via experiment.

• Can you mix fibres of different feyplants together without them rejecting each other in some way?
• Can you even get a properly even mix of the fibres, to ensure the whole sheet is uniform in it's characteristics?
• Will mixing them together like that, result in the combined properties, like the fusing?
• Can it be done without mana by commoners, or does it need actual brewing? -> key question for whether it can be mass produced?
• Can this combined paper be upgraded to the same level as the outcome of upgrading seperate types of paper and fusing them?
• If so, does it take more or less resources to upgrade the base-combined paper, than upgrading the pure ones and fusing them afterwrads?
• • For that matter... what will happen if they first fuse the three types and only go through the gold dust enhancement afterwards?

If they are in a rush, I wonder if they would have time to do that. Making paper takes longer than a few days and they would have to try multiple different ways to make it, then wait for days for the results and see which changes made the best changes, improve based on that, and repeat this process multiple times. Going with Clarissa's idea and hunting for feybeast skin might be quicker.

Though I do agree that improving the process for making the initial paper is something Rozemyne should do in the future.

I think that's primarily because of the point of view nature of these books. It might have seemed momentarily to us, but remember that it's been quite some time between the return from the archduke conference and this tea party.

The archduke conference is held in early spring and the funeral for Aub Ahrensbach was said to be in summer, meaning it's been at least two months at the minimum between the return from the archduke conference and this tea party, probably more like three in my estimation. Plenty of time for Wilfried to go through extensive self-reflection.

Tbf here, when put into the context of active Sabotage Wilfrieds actions so far make a whole lot of sense. The tensions being gone so quickly is a bit meh, would have liked a bit more conflict but overall not a problem imo. I am very interested to see where Wilfrieds character will go now though, so far he has always been somewhat of a puppet being tossed around by people no matter his own opinion on things. Now that he is faced with pretty much complete freedom for likely the first time in his life I am intrigued to see where he will go.

Kinda weird Barthold (I think he is name sworn to Wilfred), tries to completely turn Wilfred against Roz under these circumstances.

If the contract fried Wilfred then would Barthold be toasted as well (not sure if the death of master auto kills name sworn retainers).

Maybe, only thing I could think that can drain mana is black feystones (like the one Bezewaz had). However unfortunately those seem to have a minimum activation threshold else Bez would probably be sucked dry (or maybe the cloth was preventing that from happening).

As I understand it, the paper chants the spell, meaning it won't be any quicker, just less effort... at the cost of more mana.

The main advantage is, that you can't mess up the chant and that in theory it would enable people to use even spells they don't know how to cast themselves.

All they need, is a person who knows the spell, to draw the magic circle on the paper for them, or for better mana efficiency, it's probably better to have that person in question draw out the magic circle on an inert piece of paper, and for the user to copy the circle precisely onto the fey paper. As long as you copy it correctly without mistakes, you don't even need to understand the circle.

I suppose it also means you aren't stuck concentrating on the chant, meaning you can do something else (like dodging attacks), while the paper chants the spell on it's own.