History AscendanceOfABookworm / TropesNToS

* RightHandVersusLeftHand: In Part 5, both Rozemyne and Ferdinand want to [[spoiler:get the Grutrissheit for the royal family]]. Rozemyne wants to do it by [[spoiler:getting adopted into the royal family to get access to the magic tool version that requires being part of said family on top of the standard qualifications, which none of the current royals fulfill]]. Ferdinand wants to do it via [[spoiler:making an entirely new version of that same magic tool, using a Book of Mestionora, which doesn't require being part of the royal family, as a base]]. They proceed to not tell each other about those specific plans despite having a covert means of exchanging information at their disposal. As a result, Rozemyne ends up [[spoiler:stumbling into the last step necessary to get a Book of Mestionora and being in the process of getting hers]] during the exact time slot Ferdinand was planning to use to do the same and the system in place only allows for one person to do this at a time. This wouldn't be such a big deal if it weren't for the fact that [[spoiler:previous events have caused Rozemyne and Ferdinand to be identical twins by the metric the gods use to tell human individuals apart, Ferdinand has acquired a partial Book of Mestionora a decade earlier and Rozemyne gets mistaken for Ferdinand returning to get the rest of his Book of Mestionora. As a result, the two of them end up with a partial Book of Mestionora each]].

** Near the end of Part 5, an unnamed lumber merchant from Illgner spots Georgine's infiltration party embarking into a merchant ship headed for Ehrenfest city. Brigitte ends up being the one relaying the information to someone the Ehrenfest archducal family will listen to because both Giebe Illgner and the province's knight commander were too busy to speak with the merchant. Busy with preparing for an announced Georgine-led invasion of the Ehrenfest duchy, specifically.

* RightHandVersusLeftHand: In Part 5, both Rozemyne and Ferdinand want to [[spoiler:get the Grutrissheit for the royal family]]. Rozemyne wants to do it by [[spoiler:getting adopted into the royal family to get access to the magic tool version that requires being part of said family on top of the standard qualifications, which none of the current royals fulfill]]. Ferdinand wants to do it via [[spoiler:making an entirely new version of that same magic tool, using a Book of Mestionora, which doesn't require being part of the royal family, as a base]]. They proceed to not tell each other about those specific plans despite having a covert means of exchanging information at their disposal. As a result, Rozemyne ends up [[spoiler:stumbling into the last step necessary to get a Book of Mestionora and being in the process of getting hers]] during the exact time slot Ferdinand was planning to use to do the same and the system in place only allows for one person to do this at a time. This wouldn't be such a big deal if it weren't for the fact that [[spoiler:previous events have caused Rozemyne and Ferdinand to be identical twins by the metric the gods use to tell human individuals apart, Ferdinand has a partial Book of Mestionora he got several years prior and Rozemyne gets mistaken for Ferdinand returning to get the rest of his Book of Mestionora. As a result the two of them end up with a partial Book of Mestionora each]].

** In late Part 3, one of Rozemyne's conditions for teaching others her mana compression method is that they sign a contract promising, among other things, that they will never be hostile towards her. The same part also earlier establishes that attacking a magic-made building is on par with attacking a member of the local archducal family. In late Part 5, Ferdinand, who signed said contract and is just about the last noble one would expect to knowingly genuinely harm Rozemyne, considers destroying [[spoiler:everything in the Ahrensbach duchy]] in response to various wrongs. Rozemyne needs to inform him that he can't do that without breaching the contract because she took magical ownership of the very thing he wants to destroy as part of her current plan.
** A magical version of this eventually turns out to be the reason the royal family's Grutrissheit went missing. Thanks to it spending several generations being willingly transmitted by retiring Zents to their chosen heirs and a very early ItSeemedTrivial moment (from the son of the Zent who first made the tool, in fact), everyone forgot that killing the current owner in hope of stealing it was a bad idea. As a result, the rule that, if its current owner died, [[spoiler:the Grutrissheit was to return to a location accessible only to members of the royal family who also fulfill the mana and prayer requirements to become Zent]] kicked in as soon as a prince tried doing just that.

** A magical version of this eventually turns out to be the reason the royal family's Grutrissheit went missing. Thanks to it spending several generations being willingly transmitted by retiring Zents to their chosen heirs and a very early ItSeemedTrivial moment (from the son of the Zent who first made the tool, in fact), everyone forgot that killing the current owner in hope of stealing it was a bad idea. As a result, the rule that [[spoiler:the Grutrissheit was to return to a location accessible only to members of the royal family who also fulfill the mana and prayer requirements to become Zent if its current owner died]] kicked in as soon a prince tried to do just that.

** A magical version of this eventually turns out to be the reason the royal family's Grutrissheit went missing. Thanks to it spending several generations being transmitted to Zent heirs while the former one is still alive and a very early ItSeemedTrivial moment, everyone forgot that killing the current owner in hope of stealing it is a bad idea. As a result, the rule that [[spoiler:the Grutrissheit was to return to a location accessible only to members of the royal family who also fulfill the mana and prayer requirements to become Zent if its current owner died]] kicked in as soon a prince tried to do just that.