Laurenz

Laurenz (ラウレンツ Raurentsu) is a mednoble apprentice knight. His parents belong to the former Veronica faction.

He is the son of Sidonius, the former Giebe Wiltord.

Laurenz has orange eyes. He is tall and fit for his age.

Laurenz has a generally easygoing and optimistic demeanor.

As the second son of Giebe Wiltord, Laurenz became childhood friends with Matthias, the son of the neighboring Giebe Gerlach. Although Matthias was one year older, their families were from the same faction and they both entered the Knight's Course at the Royal Academy, making it natural for them to spend time together.

After his third term at the royal academy Laurenz is taught a mana compression method by his parents that Ladya Georgine of Ahrensbach taught them. In the following summer they pressure their son to also swear his name to Georgine, but Lauranz is able to play for time by stating that due to his growing mana capacity on account of the compression method he was taught he no longer has materials of sufficiently high quality to make a name-swearing feystone suitable for his new capacity and thus would like to wait until his capacity has settled when he comes of age.

He successfully manages to keep it a secret from his parents that thanks to his part in the slaying of the Ternisbefallen he already has such materials and is delaying due to being unsure which side of the conflict between Sylvester and his sister he should join.

At the start of the next academy term Laurenz and Matthias go to hunt and gather ingredients in Ehrenfest's gathering spot. There they find out that thanks to the healing ritual Lady Rozemyne performed the previous year, the gathering spot is far more bountiful, but that this also attracted more and stronger feybeasts. While the pair is still able to overcome the beasts in their immediate surroundings, they decide to cut their visit short before they are able to gather everything they wanted and come back later with more people.

During the hunting trip they also discuss the recent actions of their parents. Matthias seems to favour a wait and see approach rather than committing to either side of the conflict, while Laurenz favours joining the archduke's side, but is willing to defer to Matthias in this matter for the time being.

Once Lord Wilfried and Lady Rozemyne arrive however their and their guardknights' expressions give away that something is up and both Laurenz and Matthias conclude that they have run out of time and need to make a decision which side to join. Matthias ascertains that the offer of fully joining the archduke's faction if they swear their names is still open and then vows to swear his name to Lady Rozemyne. In front of all the gathered students and the archduke candidates he tells them everything he knows about Goergine's plans, including that she claims to know where the access to Ehrenfest's foundation is and that she is almost able to take it over.

Laurenz' younger brother is currently being taken care of in the temple orphanage since he is still too young to give his name to the archducal family.

A few days after the start of the academy year the students are given an update on the current state of the purge. Surprisingly only very few nobles were actually executed and so only five students need to give their names in the end. As Laurenz expected his parents were among the executed traitors and thus he is one of the five. On the same day he, along with Matthias, swear themselves to Lady Rozemyne, since they both already finished their name-swearing feystones in anticipation of this situation.


 * On his first introduction in Part 3 Volume 3, Laurenz's name was translated as "Laurentius".
 * Laurenz is the best close-quarters fighter among Rozemyne's apprentice guard knights.