@marcus_atticus My personal theory: job interview preparation. Urano might have had many flaws that didn't let her engage that well in society, but she was able to complete college and get her dream job. Seeing how good she is at learning as Myne, I suspect that Urano did quite a bit of preparation for job interviews in the hopes of securing her dream job on the first try. In P1V1, her understanding of the underlying pitfalls and challenges in the Benno/Otto job interview, combined with her negotiation to maintain her strategic assets, seem to link back to this. My theory is that she utilizes this base of knowledge to start learning how to barter like a merchant.

For the longest time, G-book was the go-to shorthand. However, I would like to advocate for switching to M-book from this point forward. We now know that "Grutrissheit" is actually the spell for summoning the book of Mestinoria. It also appears that this book is blank until filled with knowledge from Mestinoria's book. Hence why it should be called the M-book.

@jcochran said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 5 Vol 6:

would allow me to move to the Sovereignty

The Japanese is 成人して中央へ出る許可を得られないでしょう, so no, she doesn't think she can get permission after she comes of age.

There's nothing on TO Book's site about a volume 12, maybe the poster got it confused with the announcement of Fanbook 8.

On New Year's TO bought a whole page newspaper advert where they outlined their plans. I will not link it since it contains the cover of every volume up to and including P5V10 but to summarise what's important:

Spring
Part 5 Volume 11 (Book 32)
Drama CD9
Winter
Fanbook 8
Part 5 Volume 12 (Book 33)
Drama CD10
and...
Short Story Collection 3
Spin-off Sequel

Also, currently voting is ongoing for the fourth character poll (which I will not link since it spoils the cover of Fanbook 8) and after voting it mentions that P5V12 is scheduled for December 2023.

Boring Calculations

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I have three theories.

the gods, simply gift mana, according to their whim. the gods, put manna into the earth, and being exposed to those elements, meant that humans imbibed it. Additionally, being born on a certain day, or at a certain time that was more mana rich could affect your memory capacity maybe.. (my most developed theory) Mana was the gods gift to everyone and some random people simply had a sort of "genetic mutation" that increases their amount of mana. Because one could use mana to intimidate mana-poor people, family lines were set up to breed for this increased mana mutation. Eventually the culture became so structured on mana capacity and the families that were bred for it slowly distanced themselves from those poor in mana that the communication between the two groups would diminish and the knowledge of the random occurrence of a mana-rich mutation would be forgotten. And at this point, the trade-secretes that noble families have collected to even further increase, their mana would likely mean that their bred mana-rich capacity would be more than your average mana-rich genetic mutation among the poor population. But there's no way to know because the social stratification basically weeds out the poor people with the devouring (aka the mana-rich mutation) because they will never have access to magic tools and will always die off, keeping the current noble families firmly established (and inbred).

Thanks be to Quof \o/
Praise be to Kier \o\

And a boatload of thanks to everyone else at JNC <3

@TheGrimLich I must admit that the ages of both are not confirmed yet I think, so for me it´s more how different they feel to Rozemyne that creates their ages in my mind.

With some thought: (spoiler cause of irrelevance to the topic)

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@staylo67 Rozemyne just doesn't make sense according to normal noble common sense. She works insanely hard because she was taught that she'd need to work hard to be accepted as a noble despite being a commoner, and by P5V3 still thinks that she could be discarded. She kinda overshot the goal and works so hard that to everyone else it looks like she's trying to prove that she's better than Wilfried.

Is Stenluke technically the child of Rozemyne and Ferdinand? He was given life (birthed?) When Rozemyne mixed mana with Ferdinand into the blade.
And like Gedulah giving Mestionora to Schutzaria’s protection, Rozemyne granted Stenluke to Angelica.

@kuali I mean, they technically did try but ultimately failed to at least eliminate her when they attacked her family villa in the Sovereignty. But even setting that aside for a moment, the impression I've generally had is that proximity to the royal image isn't much more than a fig leaf, and a very small/thin one at that, for everyone involved. Whoever wins will spout whatever amount of rhetoric and propaganda they feel necessary to justify why their figurehead is legitimate, but how genuinely legitimate said figurehead is matters only to the extent that anyone else has the military strength to challenge that legitimacy. Beyond that, everything is just window dressing. To that end, if Eglantine were to be used as some sort of figurehead by Werkestock, I would expect Werkestock to have already won on the "merit" of their military strength, with Eglantine's lineage having little if any impact on the actual conflict that happened beforehand.

Wilfried acted up in a scheme to avoid political marriage as decided by his parents.

Maybe he and Hannelore can find common ground there, as she betrayed her duchy to decide her future as well, during the bride taking ditter.

@zwabbit A fair point, it would be a rather stifling match. Honestly, Wilfried's biggest problem is that he isn't cut out to be an ADC. It is almost ironic that the dude was born with so much, but is inherently unsuitible for the role he was born into.

@mufloon Maybe it might work out, I don't know. I just would rather Hannelore hook up with somebody who can bring out the best in her, not require her to support him. Of course, we also have no idea what their end career states will be. Wilfried almost certainly won't be an archduke, and Hannelore likely isn't in contention in Dunkelfelger, so politically the match likely won't work either.

@pcj somehow this feels so japanese, shoving responsibility from a to b only to have an ambiguous result in the end. But oh well just lets take it as it comes.

@DMC-Tornado said in Worst ships:

@DaveHowe said in Worst ships:

@DMC-Tornado said in Worst ships:

Wrong topic, this should be “worst ships,” not “funniest ships.”

Is that a shipping warning? :D

Oh Seven I hope Frau doesn't get her own ship with a horn...

Surprised Roz hasn't added a train horn onto lessy - unless she doesn't know how they work? I mean, in Dahlia they would just have wind crystals, but I imagine a wind-type magic circle could substitute for the compressor. Train horns aren't built like whistles though, so it is possible something like a french horn or trumpet would be easier for Roz to visualize?

@LeavesCat said in Economics, Finance and everything in-between:

@Almond-Magnum The economics are a bit different since not all products are the same relative to each other. The Lion-Yen equivalence seems to be true for salaries and food prices, but basically all types of manufactured luxury items are 100 times as expensive as on Earth, if not more.

The economy can't really be directly compared to modern Earth due to the fact that Yurgenschmidt is in the middle of taking its first step towards the industrial revolution whereas Earth is a solid two centuries past the revolution itself. (And like 600-700 past that first step.) Since they have no mass production of any kind other than the very recently-developed printing press, most luxury goods are disproportionately expensive compared to how they'd be perceived in our modern economies.

@NekoInu said in Hypothetical Bookworm Deities:

Recently, forum participants have suggested possible deities (and/or avatars) not officially in the Bookworm pantheon. Sadly, I didn’t start this document until 17 July 2023, but here are the suggestions I’ve found:

Georgine, an avatar of the Goddess of Plausible Deniability (post #4596, @b.scot.morgan, 5.5)

alternate for Georgine: an avatar of the God of Sacrificing Underlings (post #4597, @kuali, 5.5)

Benno, Patron Saint of Pattern Recognition (post #1101, @kuali, 5.6)

Please enter your hypothetical deity/ies, too, so we can learn of these (scarce) omissions in the Official Yurgenschmidt Pantheon! thx

if #1 is true, you will never be able to prove it....

@hiroto I believe it was 2.2.2, the one with the lovely (and perfectly innocent, I assure you)

The number of flowers in my chambers had grown ever since she arrived, and they were becoming increasingly presentable to visitors.

Hello,

We are starting to drift from the initial thread topic. As always if anyone wishes to continue this or any secondary topic line, feel free to open a new topic. Thank you