Personally, I don't care what's in the fanbook. I might have, if it illuminated something that was unclear in the novel, but the novel says "puberty" and (as far as I am aware) never contradicts that.

@LegitPancake said in Any Extras on Volume 7 (Part 4) ?:

The short stories themselves are not exclusive, they will be available in every ebook from every store, and correct me if I’m wrong but I believe they were available in the prepubs as well. Only the DIY print pdf is Bookwalker exclusive.

yep, I know that, & Yes!, they where also in the Pre-Pubs. I've read them there too.
if you read well, my question was "if those where exclusive made by B*W", as have been confirmed, or JNC will release them too. (sadly not)

I think Ferdinand may have a role similar to Cinderella in the story. He has the wicked stepmother for it.

@zwabbit Yeah, that's why I haven't used it:)

@zwabbit Maybe wiggle room in case she needs to write something else into the story later on that might barely fit into that statement without contradiction.

Part 8

0%: Your attendants may wait outside

Maybe retainers instead of attendants, I would assume Eglatine would at least also have guard knights with her as well.

Your retainers may wait outside

0%: so Eglantine’s attendants were treated simply as being from Klassenberg and made to wait elsewhere.

This should probably be retainers too.

so Eglantine’s retainers were treated simply as being from Klassenberg and made to wait elsewhere.

@zwabbit Well damn! This was fantastic... not only did you do a great job capturing the general feel of the series, you also presented a side story that felt like it could plausibly actually happen.

Kudos!

@korn101 Seeing as most systems don't have other inputs reduced to a rounding error on account of the presence of things like the sun, that tells you pretty clearly that the sun's own input, whatever the sun's own innate mas, is minuscule as far as that system goes. There's nothing to indicate otherwise for the system of magic in the Bookverse either.

@kuali said in [Speculation] Fall of the Temple:

As I recall, it was only ever stated he'd agreed to Myne's Blue Robes, not that he'd ordered it.

Now that you mention it, Sylvester exhibits some truly flexible thinking here, others nobles would never consider it. He's not deciding things solely by status and rank.

As for my posting, I think it can be to easy to just to type up something clever by half and just hit submit. I'll try to keep things more grounded and less speculative, while posting less often.

I had some time to kill this weekend and someone had mentioned the catchup option, so I went back and read through the Bookworm manga. Originally I ignored the manga as it feels like an abbreviated version of the story. Condensing it down into manga form though forces the story to be concise in spots. It doesn't add much to the discussion, but in Part 2, Volume 5, Chapter 5 page 31 Ferdinand uses an analogy, in replying to Rozemyne. He answers...

"Entirely as if you were educated in another language. Like a Foreigner who simply does not know the words of this land."

It's not much, but it's an admission from Ferdinand that some foreigners have different language and Yurgenschmidt's language isn't universal.

I'll have to reread the novel chapters leading up to the Trombe event, but I think we get the Cinderella story and cultural differences bit.

@anonymous0070 said in Medical Science / Genetics in the Bookverse:

@kuali said in Medical Science / Genetics in the Bookverse:

@anonymous0070 This actually comes up in the fanbook 2 q&a section - her cooking methods do have an effect on mana capacities, but its pretty small - and would take several generations to make any sort of real difference.

Really? I had no idea at all. I thought it was a completely unhinged theory. Huh.

A much more likely explanation is that they don't seem to have made a practice of washing their vegetables prior to cooking, so if they didn't parboil the vegetables and throw out the water they would have been eating all kinds of nasty stuff from the dirt on the vegetables, which could easily cause all kinds of health issues

@zeteni Or until I get around to putting together another report to the ducal government of Drewanchel.

Based on the insinuations Ferdinand has made a couple of times, his ex-fiancee is almost certainly Hildebrand's mother, and she was the one dissatisfied with said engagement and went and got hitched with the current king/then prince instead to get out of it.

Another thing to note. If Hesshitze had any awareness of how bad Ferdinand's situation was in Ehrenfest, then his giving his cape to Ferdinand may have been also a backdoor way of giving Ferdinand something that was embroidered because he knew Ferdinand would have difficulty getting any such work done on his own cape.

@thegrimlich said in Bookworm (Manga) Part 2 Vol 5 Discussion:

(and afaik we have no knowledge as to why, whether it be divorce, death, or whatever)

Confirmed dead. P1V1 Prologue

she headed straight to the book storage room left behind by her father, who had died when she was young.

@kuali I decided to recheck the Fanbook answer just in case, and it turns out we do have more info.

Q: Why is Karstedt an archnoble despite being Bonifatius’s son? Are all children of archduke candidates archnobles by default?

A: When the next archduke hasn’t been decided, the children of archduke candidates are also raised as archduke candidates in the event that one of their parents becomes the aub, since their parents would subsequently need a successor. Despite another aub having been selected, his children were all girls and he did not plan on taking a second wife, so Karstedt remained an archduke candidate until Sylvester was born. That is why he is an archnoble now.

If Karstedt was demoted after Sylvester was born, then he never would have taken the archduke candidate course in the RA, which would most likely prevent him from ever inheriting. I doubt there's a way to regain candidate status (though that's just a feeling), except maybe the entire ducal line dying out naturally and a branch house being promoted as new Aub by the king? Though in this case if there were no trained or legitimate successors available they might just import an archduke candidate from another duchy to reset things.

@tube Yeah, the Gli*o pose ==> Prayer thing was very interesting.

Kazuki-sensei: So the whole Christian prayer thing is actually a bit more symbolic... I should probably think up some symbolism... how about raising your arms and a leg to be closer to the Gods?

Kazuki-sensei's Husband: That's the Gl*co pose, you know.

Kazuki-sensei: ...it totally is. You know what? We're making the G*ico pose the praying pose. It's too funny.