PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

Good question. If the royals find out she has the Grutrissheit they may be fully against her going to Ahrensbach. My thought is she may act like she learned how to use the country gate teleporters from knowledge in the archive instead of revealing her possession of the Grutrissheit.

Hannelore willingly charging into battle seems a bit out of character to me. I wouldn't completely rule out that she might want to do it anyway, but I absolutely can not believe that her mother would ever allow it. So my prediction is, that she's only going to join the pre-ditter ritual, but remain behind in the Royal Academy. I would not be the least bit surprised however, if she were to pour every last bit of mana she has into the ritual, to give the attackers that little bit of extra boost, and then potentially collapse from the exhaustion Rozemyne style. ^^

With Ahrensbach it all depends on timing. Between the complete surprise of the attack, the silver equipment and their poisons, they will be able to sweep through their unprepared oppositing at breakneck speed. So if they start at dusk, there won't be many left to join up with Rozemyne & co, when they arrive near midnight. And what's worse, the knights will be the ones most likely to die instantly, without a chance to flee. They'll charge in with the schtappe weapons and feystone armour, believeing they stand a chance, only for the silver cloth to block their attacks and the silver weapons to cut right through their defenses in an instant, meaning that it's only the ones who either have running as their first instinct, or who by chance witness another attack from a distance who might escape the slaughter. So unless Rozemyne's force arrives with impeccable timing, only minutes after Lanzenave launches their purge, I don't see many Ahrensbach fighters surviving long enough to join up. They can still get valuable intelligence and maybe some extra rejuvenation potions from the non-combatant nobles, but I don't see the allied combat potential being much increased with Ahrensbach survivors. Except Strahl. I'm certian that thanks to Letizia's warning, he will survive and join up with Rozemyne's force, and with him being the former knight's commander, he's bound to be a valuable asset.

The problem with Alstede is, that as far as she knows, it was Trauerqual himself, who came up with the brutal conditions for the civil war purge, that saw even some of his own allies during the war executed, for being related to "traitors." That might well lead Alstede to conclude that if Georgine loses, her life will be forfeit due to guilt by association anyway, so she might as well fight to the last breath. Or she might take the Gloria way out and blow off her own head, rather than being captured, interrogated and executed later. I also wouldn't rule out the possibility that she might have been forced to give Georgine her name, which would leave her without a choice either way.

If she were to switch sides, that would have MASSIVE consequences. She knows that Raublut is a traitor and that right now the Lanzenave king is in the Adalgisa villa, with the only way out, being the teleporter to Ahrensbach, so if they shut that down and lock the doors of the Adalgisa villa, they have him in a trap. And it's precisely for this reason that I find it hard to believe she will switch sides. If she did, it's game over for Detlinde and Lanzenave and I find it a bit hard to believe that would happen, when there are still three more volumes after this one, so I expect her to either go down fighting or be taken out by some failsafe Georgine put in place.

Yeah, that's what Rozemyne thought anyway:

I’d already connected the dots. I didn’t know how, but Ferdinand must have realized that we each owned part of the Book of Mestionora and that his death would make my book complete. - Rozemyne