@Geezer-Weasalopes said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 5 Vol 10:

"By your command."

Said in a very electronic voice while wearing silver armor? :)

Were we talking about the invaders from Lanzenave? I’ve lost track of the topic. :p

@TheGrimLich said in Royal Grades - Zent Meeting (positive):

Yeah, it was Adolphine. A simple line, delivered simply. And Sigiswald didn't learn a goddamn thing. Then again... who would've expected him to?

So it was Adolphine, in the Ehrenfest tea room, with savage words.

@Almond-Magnum said in Royal Grades - Zent Meeting (negative):

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Royal Grades - Zent Meeting (negative):

Number of individuals polling should equal number of votes for Sigiswald.

How do you know the former? I don't see it anywhere.

Joke, fer effs sake.
That everyone except an utter troll would downcheck Sigiswald.

@dragon3010 said in mynes relationship with her retainers:

@henshaw33 Florencia seems fairly close with her scholar, adolphine's attendant that she brought with her is fairly close with her enough to know she hates every moment of being married. Lisetta was close with her head attendant before she died.

Don't think we get many other attendants and Ferdinands don't count due to being namesworn and weird by noble standards.

Lisetta? Do you perhaps mean Letizia? In general we've heard that head attendants are considered second parents of sorts.

I don't think Rozemyne has been particularly distant overall, especially considering how many secrets she's keeping from most/all of them (Urano memories, commoner birth, until late P5V5 her Zentquest knowledge, until P5V8 her correspondence with Ferdinand, the ink used for it, Ferdinand's Zent Candidate status). If her commoner past were to be known and accepted more widely, I would imagine she could be a lot more open with them.

@clear_aria I'm not sure how much bigger in scale you would need, going from "something affordable by a not particularly rich medial duchy" to "consuming the entirety of the Sovereignty's budget" to count as a major or even complete blindside.

Sylvester told her to raise everyone's grades and ranks. He did not tell her to insult a prince to his face (twice!) or inject Ehrenfest into the courtship of the Klassenberg princess (and therefore the royal succession!). In year two, Myne was explicitly instructed to limit how much "advice" she dispensed to others, especially royals. She immediately started offering advice to Hildebrand because she felt sorry for him feeling left out. In year three, Myne was again told to stop proactively offering help and limit the scope of her involvement only to the letter of prior agreements. She then went and suggested the royals participate in the dedication ceremony because she wanted to "help" them with their mana shortage.

Sylvester did tell Myne to do her thing with the negotiations with Sigiswald, and almost certainly did so knowing she would likely again exceed whatever remit or constraints he might have tried to impose. That doesn't mean he's hypocritical or otherwise for complaining about it afterward. Intentionally choosing a path that you know will cause you difficulties or headaches, if only because it's the only path, doesn't mean you can't feel annoyance or frustration afterward, since the headaches and difficulties certainly don't magically go away because this was the only option. As I said earlier, Sylvester is venting here as a stress reaction. Hypocrisy only enters the picture if he actually tried to undermine the results of Myne's actions, which Sylvester most certainly did not try to do here.

"Price" entails much more than just coin or resources. Political capital has a price all its own, and Sylvester is needing to expend quite a bit of it in order to make Myne's requests stand, especially in the face of the misunderstandings some of her actions caused. After all, Sylvester could just accept the Sovereignty's demands wholesale and not even try to negotiate terms. Myne's "requests" made prior to Sigiswald however carried a greater degree of legitimacy because Myne had the implicit authorization of speaking on Ehrenfest's behalf, as far as naming Ehrenfest's terms, and her own personal requests had further weight because that same authorization implied Ehrenfest would also be backing those personal requests, and that implicit death threat. Against the royal family.

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@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Axehand What's the relevance of Karstark? Are you maybe thinking of Rasantark? Rasantark and Rarstark are definitely similar names, though their names are equally similar in JP, so it didn't cross my mind too much. ラザンタルク + ラールタルク.

Looks like Quof considers them to be separate people.

I think perhaps you and @IppieLok are remembering the discussion around Lahrtaruc and Rarstark - which were, in fact, the same person.

@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Flamesz-0 Rarstark. It's more similar to Lahrtaruc if you morph the spelling to how it looks in JP: Rarutaruku. The "s" is introduced in translation. The JP spelling is extraordinarily messy, as what happens when random words are mashed together. "Lahr" and "taruc" are names, so Rarutaruku looked like Lahrtaruc, but "rar" is "very" and "stark" is "strong" (to my knowledge), so it was actually probably Rarstark for "very strong." (Also, L/R are equivalent in JP, so yeah the first letter is always gambling.)

@Yessie

To sum it up

Diagnosis should be remove from the whole book.

Do not diagnos a persons this close to a truma.

In trauma litteratur avoiding behavior is used and not phobia or fear.

This is not phobia

I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but in my opinion most of the suggestions that you are making are going beyond translation and into rewriting the original text. I don’t think that J-Novel can (or should) change what the author wrote like that, even if the author made factual errors.

@15Redstones said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 10 Discussion!:

@Libri-Liberorum right, southern hemisphere would end daylight savings time now.
With JNC in the US starting DST several weeks ago does that mean you have a two hour difference between winter and summer Bookworm time?

Yes.

@Best_Boy_Bonifatius i plan on re-reading the series once all the vplumes of the LN P5 are out. I specifically want to note down any mention of the gods, their names, attributes and such.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - LN vs. WN:

@radiantmemories

Hello,

Just a heads up any WN talk is not allowed in the main Bookworm discussion topics. We have a topic for the WN itself, and one for a comparison between the two. I have moved your post.

Ah, sorry about that, I wasn't sure! I thought it would be okay since it wasn't future content and I spoilered it. But I know for now on!

@marcus_atticus maybe it's "might begets respect". In Bindewald when Fraularm accused Maybe of being a commoner, the ditterland people were ready to disbelieve just because Myne is good enough on ditter to have completed half of true ditter successfully. So even if a commoner was strong and exceedingly good in hunting feybeasts maybe ditterland knights wouldn't be averse to working with them. Of course this is pure speculation on my part.

@kuali said in Do RA professors get married?:

@Outinthegardener There's nothing we know of preventing them from marrying or procreating - Eglantine's married and a Professor, and nobody batted an eye at her taking the position. She even kept up her duties during her pregnancy (albeit while hiding said pregnancy.)

True, I didn't think about Eglantine.

Likewise, Hortensia was married when she took up her post as a Librarian.

True, she is childless though.

Hirschur was 42 at her introduction (as per the character sheets from Fanbook 2), making her roughly 18 years older than Ferdinand, (and about 3 years older than Elvira).

I must have totally missed those character sheets … don't remember them at all.

That's old enough for her to have had a child or two, gotten them to baptism, and then gone back to work. Though honestly, I think she probably either never married or got widowed young, and went to the Sovereignty to avoid people trying to force her to play housewife.

Guess it works out after all then. Thanks to everyone for setting me straight.

@JonaStubbe said in If Rozemyne can't ride a feystone highbeast...:

I'm sorry to say but if you want to post any idea that isn't depressingly dystopian without a number of posters descending on you like vultures and tearing your idea to shreds, I suggest visiting the "Dumb Things That Will Never Happen" or "Plausible Things That Also Won't Happen" threads and posting there.

In particular, I think the more realistic outcome will be that she will start using feystones again whenever someone near and dear to her (probably Ferdinand) is in danger of dying, and her using one allows her to save them.

I'm not sure. Ferdinand consider how to replace feystone tech. He loves to research. Who knows what breakthrough they can achieve in a new field.

When he and Rozemyne discussed a future researching feyplants together after the spring jureve ingredient incident they were inspired by living flowers.

@sorvani said in If Rozemyne can't ride a feystone highbeast...:

Also, the title of the thread is pretty spoilerific for people that are maybe not current.

alright.

edit:
If Rozemyne never overcomes her fear of feystones her problems are:

1] Ordonanz feystones - nobles use these all the time. Ferdinand suggested a Magic Circle alternate. Everyone will think Rozemyne's weird if she sends messages like that and they'll continue to send normal feystone ordonanz to her. Feystone she needs to return to them.

The simplest solution: her retainers hold the ordonanz feystones for her. If it happens in public they can explain she fear a poison coated ordonanz?

2] Highbeast feystone - make it a living tool.

The simplest solution: change it's shape from a round feystone to a panda-shaped feystone. So far she tolerate her feystone jewelry.

3] Brewing - develop Godly Blessings and drawn magic circle alternatives for her feystone based potions. If they find a feystone free recipe for Jureve and rejuvenation potions they're golden.

The simplest solution: her scholars, Ferdinand and Raimund brew her potions. Rozemyne loves books, not potion brewing. Maybe she needs to move mana for a Jureve but Ferdinand can guide her through the process while she close her eyes. Jureve is rarely used in normal circumstances.

4] Feystone locks, various magic tools - Replace them with magic circles or hide the feystones from view.

The simplest solution: let Ferdinand power them for her or guide her while she close her eyes.

5] Duchy/Country Foundation - I admit, if Rozemyne stays traumatized this is a problem.

The simplest solution: make a complaint to the Gods and demand feystone-less alternatives. She helped them out, they can show some appreciation.