I note that for S&W, Rozemyne had scholars draw out the magic circles such that the girls could do the embroidery from a pattern.

So. Start by making some water-soluble ink.

Given a cape brought in by a young wife or lover, mimeograph-print a number of complex defensive circles on the capes such that the woman in question can add their own embroidery in mana-enriched thread, then wash away the design leaving a flawless embroidered cloak with multiple defensive and reflective circles on it to present to their beloved - customer can choose which circles and where, and of course each is perfect every time, without risking messing up a rune by drawing it backwards or something.

@TheGrimLich I want to say all the way back in P1 there was mention of some instrument used by minstrels that wasn't a harspiel and sounded like it might be lute-like, but I could just be imagining things.

@Thecardq said in Name swearing:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Name swearing:

This hasn't been discussed in-story, true, but has there been any circumstances where such discussion would be justified?

If remaking a name stone were something reasonably achievable, then I doubt Georgine would've accepted Mattias's excuse about not wanting his growth hindered by his stone.

On the other hand, even if it were a not-so-hard thing to do, to shift from one name-stone to another would seem to require a period where your name had been returned to you so that you could then offer up the snazier name-stone.
Given what all Georgine is up to, I suspect she would consider that an unacceptable security risk.
Once she has someone's name, she uses them for stuff that she really doesn't want reported to Aub Ehrenfest.
Releasing them for any amount of time carries the risk of their having decided they want out.
So better to hold off a bit if it looks like they'll still willingly give her their name in the end.

My impression hadn't been that his growth would be hindered, but rather that he hadn't gathered ingredients of a quality to allow her to take proper advantage of his mana's full potential; for that understanding to be correct does seem to indicate that the one who has received the name-stone can in some manner draw upon the mana of the giver, that more is involved than just having control of a sort over the individual, but also the ability to draw upon the mana associated with them. If the quality of the stone, or the abilities at the time it is made can limit what can be siphoned off, that's justification for holding off in some cases.

@Awwkaw Even earlier than that, actually - the letter of introduction Myne handles when Gunther and Otto are in a meeting refers to Barons Blon and Glaz!

But hey, we all forget stuff sometimes. There's a lot to remember in this series...

@Zeteni Wait until Myne herself is on the receiving end of this when Hartmut commissions prints of her in all her saintly glory to hand out as part of a pamphlet expounding on the virtues of Saint Rozemyne, Avatar of Mestionora.

@db0ssman said in Bookworm Part 4 Vol. 9 Discussion!:

@DaveHowe Is there any indication that the gods of this world are supposed to be omniscient or omnipotent? For the most part, what we know about the gods is that people just borrow their power through prayers and circles. The god's individual powers seem limited to whatever they specialize in and don't seem to care much about how the power is being used. In that case, if it's the person who casts it that lets people in or out, it would be useless to test aggression because they would determine that when casting. It seems reasonable to me that the aggressors' state of mind or emotions are what's being blocked out.

I don't think that's a useful distinction.

As pointed out ,the person attempting to enter might not know who is inside; the caster almost certainly won't know the secret intentions of those attempting to enter; take for example the shield Rozemyne generated during the fight with Count Bindewald; of the four attendants (including Delia) who attempted to enter the shield, half were successful and half blown away; Myne is then explicit on what that means - that the two had ill intent, and meant harm to someone within the shield (possibly even Delia, who entered first) and the shield itself would not permit that.

The beams of mana themselves had no agency - they would not only kill, but erase from the world anyone unfortunate enough to be caught up in them, and it didn't matter if it was Ferdinand or the Count's mana fuelling it.

so we have two different cases - where the attack is mindless, but an imminent threat to those inside, and where the individual's intent was unknown to Myne, but known to whatever controls access though the shield.

the former doesn't require knowledge of the future, just perception of the obvious, and the latter requires knowledge of what is in the hearts and minds of the people concerned, which is well within the range of even a fairly limited god. All the actual power fuelling the shield itself came from Myne, so omnipotence isn't really a factor either.

This technically isn't any kind of error, but in the past, British idioms have been replaced by the American ones so I thought I would point one out. In the Viscount Dahldof's Estate chapter it starts out: "I had been champing at the bit..." It's far more common in American English to say "I had been chomping at the bit..."

@watashidesuka Of the Eternal Five, only four of them are children of the God of Darkness and Goddess of Light. Ewigeliebe, the God of Life, is not considered one of the siblings.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:

@Almond-Magnum said in Why do readers think young Myne was a brat?:

@Geezer-Weasalopes
I don't think a normal adult would have an easy time accepting, or rather, internalizing the new situation. New world, new body, everything from the old life gone aside from memories that can't even be talked about. That's a lot.
If someone woke up missing a leg, forgot they missed a leg, and fell to the ground when they tried to get out of the bed, would they be an unforgivable brat for the trouble they caused?

There's a bit of a difference between your example and being that obsessed with books.

Is there? She acted like she was still Urano, in Japan, even though she wasn't.

She was literally tearing the place apart looking for something to read.

She looked around, but her family didn't go home to a crime scene.

With zero concern for how that impacted anything.
Acting just like someone in withdrawal.

But the only reason we can say she's caused big problems is that she's sickly in a poor medieval family and not healthy in a middle class family in 21st century Japan.

Now, given everything we've seen since, she does have that kind of situation going on, even if it's not a biochemical dependency.
She is that addicted to books, or close enough.

But early on there were various other actions that showed that she didn't have consideration or respect for those caring for her.

I won't argue that she gave much thought to the strangers whose midst she was thrust into, and who (unintentionally) gaslit her about her whole life, but what actions, specifically, did she take that were so heinous?

Thinking about it some more, her book obsession actually made her less of a problem. It distracted her from everything else she lost. And losing her books is a loss she can make up for - it gave her a long term goal.

Imagine she'd been more normal. What if she missed her mom, and wasn't even allowed to grieve, because of course she hasn't lost her mom, her mom is that green-haired stranger she can't help but love but doesn't remember. What if she had a boyfriend, and was about to get married? Worse, what if she was already a wife and mother? How do you deal with that kind of loss? I mean, if you wake up in a hospital bed after a car accident, your family's only survivor, at least the hospital staff around you won't deny your family ever existed and treat you as delusional if you bring them up.

@Libri-Liberorum said in Bookworm Part 2 Vol. 4 Discussion!:

The entire nation exists because of a super-anti-trombe, a plant which sprouted at the capital and extends underground feeding mana to the land - this is why the country's border is a perfect circle, as this is as far as the anti-trombe roots have grown.

This forum has really been talking about the tree for a while, huh

@grubba said in [CORRECTIONS] - Bookworm Part 4 Volume 3:

Chapter: A Week of Socializing

... then gather around Lord Wilfried's attendants...

As they have been split according to profession, this should probably be retainers.

You are correct. It should be retainers.

「他はヴィルフリート様の側近を中心に騎士、文官、側仕えに分かれて領地対抗戦について話し合ってください。

“Everyone else, split into groups based on profession and then gather around Lord Wilfried’s attendants to discuss the upcoming Interduchy Tournament.

The Secrets of Rozemynian Mana Manipulation™ Revealed!
OR:
Even a Monkey can do Rozemynian Mana Manipulation™.

Sample Data:
Water Guns
Driveable High Beasts
Cloak of Darkness
Myne's Final Blessing™
The Crushing
Magic Circuits Circles
RMCM

Rozemynian Mana Manipulation™, at heart, is a subset of 'Toon Physics.
Reality is what you envision it to be

Thus, the ability to imagine something as being possible, to put together a model in your mind of how it would work, to name it if the intent is repeated use, and [when needful] to convey this to That Which Manifests Reality [in general, deities].

Obtaining your Divine Will makes all of this much easier, but that's a crutch, not a true necessity. [References: Changes in the RA Curriculum as a result of the Zent Decree of Year (smudged text) Post-Purge]

Strong emotions open wide the floodgates of mana [See: Rozemyne's Final Blessing™, The Blessing of Eglantine, Whirling Rozemyne Does Elton John, Evil Santa Must Die!, In Defence of Tuuli, Ferdinand's Concert (Fangirl Edition), Rozemyne's experiences with The Devouring and Despair, amongst others.]

It has to make sense to the one manipulating mana. [See: Driveable High Beasts, Water Gun, RMCM]

Driveable High Beasts:
Rozemyne, being heavily influenced by the Urano Memory Upsurge, has a different view of what's possible than those whose only frame of reference is Daily Life in Yurgenschmidt.
When tasked with creating a High Beast to use for transportation...the concept of Transportation was of greater influence than the concept of High Beast. She doesn't share the Yurgenschmidt vision of just what a High Beast is, and her concepts of forms of transportation differ as well.
It had to be something she could get behind, and Feybeasts weren't it.
It's an animeish world, so Pandabuses it is!
[Be thankful she wasn't a major Gundam™ fan]

Your garden variety Pandabus can change size, seating and cargo capacity, has doors and windows that can open and shut, fly despite being aerodynamically unsound ...and apparently independently variable length legs.
That last has to do with trudging down stairs while remaining comfortably seated in her Pandabus.
The body of the Pandabus remains perpendicular to the source of gravity despite traveling up and down stairs.
This requires a change in the length of that which supports the Pandabus, since it's not in 'flight mode'.
The stairs are reached.
A 'leg' reaches forward and literally changes length as required to reach the next step.
The adjacent 'leg' follows suit, either to the same step or the one beyond, depending upon the type of progress desired.
The Pandabus shifts forward, now supported by 'front legs' upon one (or more) steps and 'rear legs' of appropriately differing length upon one (or more) other steps.

There are several ways of envisioning the changing length of the legs.
Consider a 'scissors lift'.
A collapsible telescope akin to those stereotypically used by ship's captains.
Or that it just changes length, materials smoothly extending or fading away as required with no change in diameter or mass of the already extant 'legs'.
Provided the one creating the High Beast can wrap their mind around how it works, it'll work out.

Support for this, outside of a passsage detailing Rozemyne trudging down the stairs within her Pandabus, would be Hirsher's Driveable High Beast.
Hirsher couldn't get how a steering wheel would direct the motion of the High Beast, but could 'grasp' the concept of using reins. [pun intended.]
So her Driveable High Beast has reins.

Water Guns:
A Water Gun works by having a reservoir for containing that which gets sent out in a stream, a mechanism for forcing that out (a pump), and a means of controlling that mechanism (a trigger).
The person casting Water Gun has to grasp how that all works at some level.
An opaque Water Gun doesn't provide enough information for someone not familiar with how they work to successfully create one despite overhearing the magic phrase 'Water Gun'.
If you observe a transparent Water Gun in use and know the magic phrase 'Water Gun' it is then possible to create one yourself; the inner workings are part of what must be visualized.

It appears you really do need to grasp how something works, as Rozemyne failed in her attempts to create a computer printer in this manner; it's a much more complex item than a simple pump.

Compression methods:
Compression methods are all about visualizing what's happening to the mana being compressed.
So it has to be a process that you understand.
Visual examples help loads when teaching how to compress mana.
You need to grok how what you are visualizing allows something to be stored in a smaller space...or take it on faith if your name is Angelica ["OK, I saw her fold up a blanket and it toke up less space within her footlocker than shoving it in as a scrunched up wad of cloth. I don't get how that works, but I can do this!]["The suitcase is full to bursting, but if I sit upon it I can still get more stuff inside! I'm good at sitting upon things."]

Belief and Intent counts:
Spells are short forms of prayers.
Clear, precise, no question what occurs.
And that, and only that, is what occurs.

Prayers are rather more vague as to just what aspect is the most important, and thus can have different effects depending upon who recites the prayer.
The needs of the moment will determine which aspect is of most importance in the mind of the one who prays.
Extempore prayers can be effective if you believe they will be responded to; phrasing still counts, as you are requesting aid, not commanding assistance.

Well, my brain is turning to mush so nothing further should be attempted, I guess.

Picking up somewhat later with no intervening posts...

Visualization is key to doing stuff with mana.

Why would Lessy present different flight profiles given aerodynamics having nothing to do with her flight capabilities?

Belief upon the part of her operator; whatever Lessy does has to fall within Rozemyne's [this is possible] worldview, and if that worldview includes altering orientation during ascending or descending flight, that's what Lessy will do. If you did have front-mounted Water Guns, or someone shooting stuff out windows using a sling shot, the orientation of Lessy in regard to their target(s) does matter.

If the suggested curriculum changes in P5V1P4 are made, I believe that the chances for Hildebrand becoming a true Zent will improve significantly.

@Helplesstank said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 1 Discussion!:

For all we know, even 7 color people were rare in the royal family except for a few select individuals in the very top portion of the family. The only confirmed individuals with 7 colors are Ferdinand and Rozemyne. Eglantine can be counted as a high probability for 7. Now we learned recently that the 2nd prince was supposed to succeed the throne, so he probably had 7 colors if the choice was based on ability and not Veronican level logic. The third prince 'probably' had 7 colors because of his progeny (Eglantine). So that means that 2/5 princes are likely to have 7 colors. We know that 1/5 of them likely didn't. That leaves 2 unknowns, the 1st and 4th prince. I won't try to make a case for or against the 1st, it seems like the competition was pretty even with the 3rd. As for the 4th prince, having 7 colors and superior mana capacity probably would have given him an edge in gathering support, so he probably doesn't have 7 colors, or at least his mana isn't superior enough that political shenanigans couldn't overshadow them.
In summary, 2/5's to 3/5's of the royal heirs (assuming no daughters who are likely all dead anyway) didn't have 7 colors. And that is only the direct blood succession. If all of those 7 color dudes had kids, less than 50% of the kids would have 7 colors if that trend continued. Now this might be sustainable if nobody was killing each other and those 7 color children all had multiple children. But the civil war killed basically all of them but Eglantine as a pre-baptised child. She might be the only 7-color royal left. We also don't know if she activated the secret passage.

I'm pretty sure that we've had it confirmed that the current king (the former fifth prince) is the half brother of the former third prince. At some point in the past I went over who I suspected the prince's mothers were, and I came to the conclusion that the Second and Third prince were most likely full siblings with a Klassenberg or Drewenchel mother, the first prince might've been their full brother, but equally likely he was a half brother with a Werkestock mother. The fourth and fifth princes may have been full brothers, or half brothers I can't be sure, but I suspect that the fourth prince was already aligned with Werkestock either through marriage or through his mother. The fifth prince's mother was most likely a love match with someone from a medial duchy.

As for other royals not the direct children of the last king, we can look at Ferdinand. He was a product of Adalgisa, and one not meant to survive either, which suggests to me that he was unimpressive by the standards there (or at the very least he was not the best). This suggests to me that the majority of those to come out of Adalgisa would posses very large mana capacities, all seven elements, or both.

For ACs from greater duchies, we can assume that they pretty much always have at least six elements, since even two generations removed from an unimpressive AC by greater duchy standards, Wilfried still has two more affinities than Cornelius despite that being their largest difference in lineage.

@Ineluki said in Name-giving and what we know of the HB bible:

Yes, yes, the activation worthiness code. I'm thinking the shumils acquire loyalty with mana added to them, and once they get the right amount they bring their chosen librarian to the Mestianora statue to charge the book, but only if there is no true Zent. That activates the Zent summon protocol, which requires 7 elements and some minimum level of excessive mana and allows eligible candidates to see the popped out letters IF they have permission to read the HB bible AND their High Bishop also meets the prerequisites... Fat chance that would happen, since most of the duchies fail at providing worthy blue priests...

Given what we've learned about how the competition for Zent has changed over the history of Yogurt land, I imagine that the Zent instructions in the bible were a standard part of the succession for some early portion of yogurt history. If that's the case it would make a lot more sense if the instructions were either an always on or opt-in type of thing. In the case that they're an always on type of thing, then the Mestionora statue being the center of that system and having simply run dry would make a lot of sense. If it's more of an opt in type of thing, maybe giving the Mestionora statue a certain minimum of mana is the opt in process and Ferdinand somehow did it while he was in school (IIRC the second floor is where research results are kept so he at least has a reason to have been there)

@Leo_LAR97

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to point this out.

Just for reference this is the topic for the 1st Fanbook Volume, we do have a dedicated topic for Fanbook 3 - https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6122/bookworm-fanbook-3-discussion?page=1

Additionally we now have a dedicated corrections topic for the Fanbooks, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4237/corrections-bookworm-fanbook the issue you mentioned has been mentioned there.

Thank you

@zwabbit closer to circa 1500

@kurosov idk while again i'm with you and think charlotte would make a better aub the reason i said that was because of dunkelfelgr's aub and how he is seemingly led by his wife.
while willfred isn't very good with politics, he is charismatic and seems to rally the boys around him, couple that with his mana capacity and while yes he's sub optimal he's still usable so long as you give him a first wife that can hold him on a short leash