@zwabbit So Zechariah is Hartmut level of devotion, neat

Personally, I don't care what's in the fanbook. I might have, if it illuminated something that was unclear in the novel, but the novel says "puberty" and (as far as I am aware) never contradicts that.

@LegitPancake said in Any Extras on Volume 7 (Part 4) ?:

The short stories themselves are not exclusive, they will be available in every ebook from every store, and correct me if I’m wrong but I believe they were available in the prepubs as well. Only the DIY print pdf is Bookwalker exclusive.

yep, I know that, & Yes!, they where also in the Pre-Pubs. I've read them there too.
if you read well, my question was "if those where exclusive made by B*W", as have been confirmed, or JNC will release them too. (sadly not)

I think Ferdinand may have a role similar to Cinderella in the story. He has the wicked stepmother for it.

@zwabbit Yeah, that's why I haven't used it:)

@zwabbit Maybe wiggle room in case she needs to write something else into the story later on that might barely fit into that statement without contradiction.

Part 8

0%: Your attendants may wait outside

Maybe retainers instead of attendants, I would assume Eglatine would at least also have guard knights with her as well.

Your retainers may wait outside

0%: so Eglantine’s attendants were treated simply as being from Klassenberg and made to wait elsewhere.

This should probably be retainers too.

so Eglantine’s retainers were treated simply as being from Klassenberg and made to wait elsewhere.

@zwabbit Well damn! This was fantastic... not only did you do a great job capturing the general feel of the series, you also presented a side story that felt like it could plausibly actually happen.

Kudos!

@korn101 Seeing as most systems don't have other inputs reduced to a rounding error on account of the presence of things like the sun, that tells you pretty clearly that the sun's own input, whatever the sun's own innate mas, is minuscule as far as that system goes. There's nothing to indicate otherwise for the system of magic in the Bookverse either.

@anonymous0070 said in Medical Science / Genetics in the Bookverse:

@kuali said in Medical Science / Genetics in the Bookverse:

@anonymous0070 This actually comes up in the fanbook 2 q&a section - her cooking methods do have an effect on mana capacities, but its pretty small - and would take several generations to make any sort of real difference.

Really? I had no idea at all. I thought it was a completely unhinged theory. Huh.

A much more likely explanation is that they don't seem to have made a practice of washing their vegetables prior to cooking, so if they didn't parboil the vegetables and throw out the water they would have been eating all kinds of nasty stuff from the dirt on the vegetables, which could easily cause all kinds of health issues

@zeteni Or until I get around to putting together another report to the ducal government of Drewanchel.

Based on the insinuations Ferdinand has made a couple of times, his ex-fiancee is almost certainly Hildebrand's mother, and she was the one dissatisfied with said engagement and went and got hitched with the current king/then prince instead to get out of it.

Another thing to note. If Hesshitze had any awareness of how bad Ferdinand's situation was in Ehrenfest, then his giving his cape to Ferdinand may have been also a backdoor way of giving Ferdinand something that was embroidered because he knew Ferdinand would have difficulty getting any such work done on his own cape.

@thegrimlich said in Bookworm (Manga) Part 2 Vol 5 Discussion:

(and afaik we have no knowledge as to why, whether it be divorce, death, or whatever)

Confirmed dead. P1V1 Prologue

she headed straight to the book storage room left behind by her father, who had died when she was young.

@tube Yeah, the Gli*o pose ==> Prayer thing was very interesting.

Kazuki-sensei: So the whole Christian prayer thing is actually a bit more symbolic... I should probably think up some symbolism... how about raising your arms and a leg to be closer to the Gods?

Kazuki-sensei's Husband: That's the Gl*co pose, you know.

Kazuki-sensei: ...it totally is. You know what? We're making the G*ico pose the praying pose. It's too funny.

@vileness999

It's an interesting topic. I think one of the nuances that I don't quite grasp as an English-speaker is when someone leaves out an honorific in Japanese. I suppose I can intellectually contemplate that it can signal speaking informally implying personal closeness, or equal status, or presumption, but I don't feel it viscerally. At times I barely notice.