@Thecardq said in Name swearing:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Name swearing:

This hasn't been discussed in-story, true, but has there been any circumstances where such discussion would be justified?

If remaking a name stone were something reasonably achievable, then I doubt Georgine would've accepted Mattias's excuse about not wanting his growth hindered by his stone.

On the other hand, even if it were a not-so-hard thing to do, to shift from one name-stone to another would seem to require a period where your name had been returned to you so that you could then offer up the snazier name-stone.
Given what all Georgine is up to, I suspect she would consider that an unacceptable security risk.
Once she has someone's name, she uses them for stuff that she really doesn't want reported to Aub Ehrenfest.
Releasing them for any amount of time carries the risk of their having decided they want out.
So better to hold off a bit if it looks like they'll still willingly give her their name in the end.

My impression hadn't been that his growth would be hindered, but rather that he hadn't gathered ingredients of a quality to allow her to take proper advantage of his mana's full potential; for that understanding to be correct does seem to indicate that the one who has received the name-stone can in some manner draw upon the mana of the giver, that more is involved than just having control of a sort over the individual, but also the ability to draw upon the mana associated with them. If the quality of the stone, or the abilities at the time it is made can limit what can be siphoned off, that's justification for holding off in some cases.

@Awwkaw Even earlier than that, actually - the letter of introduction Myne handles when Gunther and Otto are in a meeting refers to Barons Blon and Glaz!

But hey, we all forget stuff sometimes. There's a lot to remember in this series...

@Zeteni Wait until Myne herself is on the receiving end of this when Hartmut commissions prints of her in all her saintly glory to hand out as part of a pamphlet expounding on the virtues of Saint Rozemyne, Avatar of Mestionora.

This technically isn't any kind of error, but in the past, British idioms have been replaced by the American ones so I thought I would point one out. In the Viscount Dahldof's Estate chapter it starts out: "I had been champing at the bit..." It's far more common in American English to say "I had been chomping at the bit..."

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:

@Almond-Magnum said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:

@Geezer-Weasalopes
I don't think a normal adult would have an easy time accepting, or rather, internalizing the new situation. New world, new body, everything from the old life gone aside from memories that can't even be talked about. That's a lot.
If someone woke up missing a leg, forgot they missed a leg, and fell to the ground when they tried to get out of the bed, would they be an unforgivable brat for the trouble they caused?

There's a bit of a difference between your example and being that obsessed with books.

Is there? She acted like she was still Urano, in Japan, even though she wasn't.

She was literally tearing the place apart looking for something to read.

She looked around, but her family didn't go home to a crime scene.

With zero concern for how that impacted anything.
Acting just like someone in withdrawal.

But the only reason we can say she's caused big problems is that she's sickly in a poor medieval family and not healthy in a middle class family in 21st century Japan.

Now, given everything we've seen since, she does have that kind of situation going on, even if it's not a biochemical dependency.
She is that addicted to books, or close enough.

But early on there were various other actions that showed that she didn't have consideration or respect for those caring for her.

I won't argue that she gave much thought to the strangers whose midst she was thrust into, and who (unintentionally) gaslit her about her whole life, but what actions, specifically, did she take that were so heinous?

Thinking about it some more, her book obsession actually made her less of a problem. It distracted her from everything else she lost. And losing her books is a loss she can make up for - it gave her a long term goal.

Imagine she'd been more normal. What if she missed her mom, and wasn't even allowed to grieve, because of course she hasn't lost her mom, her mom is that green-haired stranger she can't help but love but doesn't remember. What if she had a boyfriend, and was about to get married? Worse, what if she was already a wife and mother? How do you deal with that kind of loss? I mean, if you wake up in a hospital bed after a car accident, your family's only survivor, at least the hospital staff around you won't deny your family ever existed and treat you as delusional if you bring them up.

@Libri-Liberorum said in Bookworm Part 2 Vol. 4 Discussion!:

The entire nation exists because of a super-anti-trombe, a plant which sprouted at the capital and extends underground feeding mana to the land - this is why the country's border is a perfect circle, as this is as far as the anti-trombe roots have grown.

This forum has really been talking about the tree for a while, huh

@Helplesstank said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 1 Discussion!:

For all we know, even 7 color people were rare in the royal family except for a few select individuals in the very top portion of the family. The only confirmed individuals with 7 colors are Ferdinand and Rozemyne. Eglantine can be counted as a high probability for 7. Now we learned recently that the 2nd prince was supposed to succeed the throne, so he probably had 7 colors if the choice was based on ability and not Veronican level logic. The third prince 'probably' had 7 colors because of his progeny (Eglantine). So that means that 2/5 princes are likely to have 7 colors. We know that 1/5 of them likely didn't. That leaves 2 unknowns, the 1st and 4th prince. I won't try to make a case for or against the 1st, it seems like the competition was pretty even with the 3rd. As for the 4th prince, having 7 colors and superior mana capacity probably would have given him an edge in gathering support, so he probably doesn't have 7 colors, or at least his mana isn't superior enough that political shenanigans couldn't overshadow them.
In summary, 2/5's to 3/5's of the royal heirs (assuming no daughters who are likely all dead anyway) didn't have 7 colors. And that is only the direct blood succession. If all of those 7 color dudes had kids, less than 50% of the kids would have 7 colors if that trend continued. Now this might be sustainable if nobody was killing each other and those 7 color children all had multiple children. But the civil war killed basically all of them but Eglantine as a pre-baptised child. She might be the only 7-color royal left. We also don't know if she activated the secret passage.

I'm pretty sure that we've had it confirmed that the current king (the former fifth prince) is the half brother of the former third prince. At some point in the past I went over who I suspected the prince's mothers were, and I came to the conclusion that the Second and Third prince were most likely full siblings with a Klassenberg or Drewenchel mother, the first prince might've been their full brother, but equally likely he was a half brother with a Werkestock mother. The fourth and fifth princes may have been full brothers, or half brothers I can't be sure, but I suspect that the fourth prince was already aligned with Werkestock either through marriage or through his mother. The fifth prince's mother was most likely a love match with someone from a medial duchy.

As for other royals not the direct children of the last king, we can look at Ferdinand. He was a product of Adalgisa, and one not meant to survive either, which suggests to me that he was unimpressive by the standards there (or at the very least he was not the best). This suggests to me that the majority of those to come out of Adalgisa would posses very large mana capacities, all seven elements, or both.

For ACs from greater duchies, we can assume that they pretty much always have at least six elements, since even two generations removed from an unimpressive AC by greater duchy standards, Wilfried still has two more affinities than Cornelius despite that being their largest difference in lineage.

@Ineluki said in Name-giving and what we know of the HB bible:

Yes, yes, the activation worthiness code. I'm thinking the shumils acquire loyalty with mana added to them, and once they get the right amount they bring their chosen librarian to the Mestianora statue to charge the book, but only if there is no true Zent. That activates the Zent summon protocol, which requires 7 elements and some minimum level of excessive mana and allows eligible candidates to see the popped out letters IF they have permission to read the HB bible AND their High Bishop also meets the prerequisites... Fat chance that would happen, since most of the duchies fail at providing worthy blue priests...

Given what we've learned about how the competition for Zent has changed over the history of Yogurt land, I imagine that the Zent instructions in the bible were a standard part of the succession for some early portion of yogurt history. If that's the case it would make a lot more sense if the instructions were either an always on or opt-in type of thing. In the case that they're an always on type of thing, then the Mestionora statue being the center of that system and having simply run dry would make a lot of sense. If it's more of an opt in type of thing, maybe giving the Mestionora statue a certain minimum of mana is the opt in process and Ferdinand somehow did it while he was in school (IIRC the second floor is where research results are kept so he at least has a reason to have been there)

@Leo_LAR97

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to point this out.

Just for reference this is the topic for the 1st Fanbook Volume, we do have a dedicated topic for Fanbook 3 - https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6122/bookworm-fanbook-3-discussion?page=1

Additionally we now have a dedicated corrections topic for the Fanbooks, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4237/corrections-bookworm-fanbook the issue you mentioned has been mentioned there.

Thank you

@zwabbit closer to circa 1500

@kurosov idk while again i'm with you and think charlotte would make a better aub the reason i said that was because of dunkelfelgr's aub and how he is seemingly led by his wife.
while willfred isn't very good with politics, he is charismatic and seems to rally the boys around him, couple that with his mana capacity and while yes he's sub optimal he's still usable so long as you give him a first wife that can hold him on a short leash

Voice messages must be horrifying beyond measure…

The best of Bookworm’s best when it comes to color inserts has been determined: P4V9! I’m amazed that You Shiina could do two renditions of the same scene and give them such different vibes between the cover and color insert. There’s a solemness and quietness in this one that is just lovely, it really feels like a farewell. But surely we’ll see you again someday, Ferdie! Look forward to whatever our dear bookworm gremlin does while you’re away!

To all of you who voted: thank you! Whether you only dropped in every now and again or voted every single week, without you, “Best of Bookworm” would have been a string of posts where I just list off my favorite bits of Bookworm, and that would be far less interesting than what we got here.

And to round things off, here's some fun (statistical) facts about the polls :D

The best of Bookworm’s best when it comes to covers has been determined: P4V9! Truly a gorgeous piece of art from You Shiina – though I wonder, how would it have fared against P5V1 now that we’ve seen it? Hmm, maybe I should do another round of polls when we finish the series… But that’s a long ways away. Regardless, I look forward to seeing all of the covers still to come!

To all of you who voted: thank you! Whether you only dropped in every now and again or voted every single week, without you, “Best of Bookworm” would have been a string of posts where I just list off my favorite bits of Bookworm, and that would be far less interesting than what we got here.

And to round things off, here's some fun (statistical) facts about the polls :D

The best of Bookworm's best when it comes to volumes has been determined: P4V2! This volume's results surprised me the most, winning the volume poll and even getting to the finals in the cover poll - it seems to be a very beloved volume. There's always something to enjoy in a volume of Bookworm, but it was our first ditter fight over fluffy goodness that took the cake! Perhaps there are some Rauffen's and Lieseleta's out there among the Bookworm forum-goers...

To all of you who voted: thank you! Whether you only dropped in every now and again or voted every single week, without you, “Best of Bookworm” would have been a string of posts where I just list off my favorite bits of Bookworm, and that would be far less interesting than what we got here.

And to round things off, here's some fun (statistical) facts about the polls :D

If you don't want to heavily get spoiled about the events of P5V10, forget this even exists.