When he made his first public appearance at his baptism, Jilvester's father said he was his, but Jilvester's mother Veronica refused to acknowledge him. The Zent could do this with a royal order, though.Īs for Ferdinand, he's Jilvester's half-brother. The higher ranked territories could apply a degree of pressure on Ehrenfest to force an issue like an engagement, and could negotiate trade deals from a position of power, but they couldn't annul an engagement that was already made or straight up steal stuff. So basically, Myne was in tight with the highest ranking nobles in her territory, and had basically absolute say within that territory. Ehrenfest was normally near the bottom of the territorial ranking, but because they were given precedence over the territories who sided against the prince who won, they were raised up towards the middle, placing #13 out of 20 by the start of the series, and rising as the story goes on. After the conflict was over, who sided with who affected the ranking of the territories, with allies to the prince who won getting boosted. Ehrenfest managed to stay neutral in this conflict. Many nobles died in the fighting, creating a magic shortage throughout the realm.
#Myne ascendance of a bookworm series#
Shortly before the start of the series there was a political disturbance as two different princes fought each other for the crown. It's moderately large in area but low in population, which also means fewer nobles to generate magic power.
Jilvester, who adopts Myne, is the Aube of Ehrenfest, which is considered to be near the bottom of the middle-sized territories. The crown has great power over the Aubes, but also relies on their support. The territories of other Aubes are basically treated as foreign nations and potential enemies. There's some trade, but it's fairly limited. And that's about all the interaction they have. There's an academy for nobles in the crown's territory that all noble children attend together, and it's the same place that has a meeting of all the Aubes once a year where they discuss economic deals, marriages, and decide a ranking for the territories based on their economy, magic power, and good standing with the crown. Even the ranking of the nobles is based on how much magic power a famiily has, and there's little mixing between the different ranks of nobles, as if two people have vastly different amounts of magic power they can't conceive a child.īecause of all these barriers and such, there's comparatively little actual interaction between the different territories. Infusing that power, altering the placement of the barriers, or changing who is in charge of what territory requires using a magical artifact that's at the core of each territory. By splitting up the territory, the magical burden can be shared. The realm is divided up because in this world magical power needs to be infused into the land to promote the growth of plants. Magical barriers separate the territories between the Aubes' territories, with passage only possible through certain gates. There are also many unlanded nobles who work under both the Tsent, the Aubes, and the Gebes, and all the nobles below the Aube and his/her immediate family are divided into lower, middle, and upper ranks.Īll these divisions are not just social constructs, but magical. Those Aubes then entrust parts of their territories to nobles called Gebes. The country is named Jurgenschmidt, and it's shaped like a perfect circle that's divided into a central territory directly owned by the king, who is called the Zent/Tsent, and 20 territories entrusted to lords called Aubes.
So long as this is the spoiler forum, let's give some more details about what I mean:Īs to whether Maine is in connection with the highest nobles, it's sort of yes and no. There's a couple I used on Pixiv somewhere but I can't go digging them up right now.
It's a lot easier with a family tree of the characters. Several of the characters I mentioned above rarely or never directly appear in the series, too. It all seems very complicated, but it's mostly introduced bit by bit over the story so it doesn't seem so bad. Click to expand.The cast really explodes starting in part 3.
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