• poltroon@bookwormstory.social
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    11 months ago

    I loved this section - Effa’s point of view, learning just how far her daughter has risen; Gunther learning his sickly daughter is now leading a squadron of knights; and Ferdinand, hearing phrases like there’s no point in saving a country without you in it, and his thoughts about how he’s never been anyone’s top priority before.

    I am even more curious about the circumstances of his adoption, though - it seems he was smuggled out? So maybe he was someone’s top priority, once, just before he remembers. I wonder how Aub Ehrenfest became involved in that - and I guess his sister? Did someone just decide to stop sending Lanzenave mana (and man, what a weird way to do it!) or did someone become fond of him in particular? And then what did happen to his mother?

    For that matter, I assume the death of the Aub’s sister / Ferdinand’s guardian was at Veronica’s hands.

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      11 months ago

      Ferdinand’s bitterness about being sent to the Temple instead of Veronica - I think that is pretty interesting and very human though also probably wrong. I don’t think the temple could have contained Veronica or protected Ferdinand from her, and the damage she would have done getting out would have been enormous.

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      11 months ago

      Hmm… there was a mention about some incident over a delivery of feystones souring the relations between Lanzenave and Yurgenschmidt. Do you think the issue might have been Ferdinand’s feystone not being delivered?