Hirschur

Hirschur (ヒルシュール, Hirushuuru) is a former Ehrenfest noble employed at the Royal Academy as a professor and overseer of the Ehrenfest Dormitory.

While she is perfectly capable of showing the usual noble etiquette expected of an archnoble, she apparently shares Ferdinand's dislike for anything that delays her unnecessarily. As a result she chooses to forgo the lengthy euphemisms and overly polite ways of her class whenever she can reasonably get away with it, preferring instead to be surprisingly direct and curt in her conversations. She is practically obsessed with research, fitting the image of a "mad scientist" to a T in Rozemyne's opinion, even more so than Ferdinand.

To Rozemyne it is rather clear that Ferdinand picked up many of his unusual personality quirks from Hirschur.

The monocle that Professor Hirschur wears is a magic tool that is helpful in seeing and understanding magic circles. It is unclear at the moment in which way this works or whether it has any functions beyond this.

As the overseer of the Ehrenfest Dormitory it would usually be expected of Hirschur to live in the Dormitory she is nominally in charge of. She however chose to retain the room in the scholar building of the central complex of the academy, that she had been living in since her schooldays, to have fewer potential distractions for her research. Her experiments also at time produce foul smells, making the residents of Ehrenfest's facilities somewhat glad Hirschur chose to deviate from the norm int his case.

In previous years Hirschur is said to only enter the Ehrenfest Dormitory twice a year and prefers to stay entirely out of regular business to be able to devote as much of her time as she can to her experiments into alchemy and magic tools. Rozemyne however managed to catch her attention to a degree that she already visited the Ehrenfest facilities several times in the first few weeks - something completely unheard of from her.

Her open mind to new ideas and propensity for experimentation was further proof upon seeing Rozemyne's drivable highbeast. Rather than resisting the idea due it going against tradition, she immediately embraced the concept for it's practicality and created a shumil-inspired version of the same concept for herself, but with the reigns she is more used to rather than the steering wheel and pedals Rozemyne favors. It is also thanks to her that the rumors that Rozemyne attacked Fraularm with her "weird feybeast highbeast" were officially dismissed as a misunderstanding on Fraularm's part, with many believing that Fraularm tried to claim this attack to cover up her embarrassment over fainting upon seeing the weird wing-less construct fly perfectly well.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 2

Recently she started to consider moving to the Ehrenfest dormitory to not miss out on all the peculiarities surrounding Rozemyne. This was further reinforced upon first eating Ehrenfest's new cuisine, which apparently was to her liking.

Having the opportunity to study the magic circles of the two library magic tools Schwartz and Weiss has filled Hirschur with a lot of enthusiasm and she immediately volunteered to participate in the creation of new clothes for them, by researching, replicating and improving upon the magic circles that had been woven in the two shumil's clothes by their previous master. Unlike the ancient magic circles used on the shumils directly, the formulae on their clothes were something that she could successfully transcribe and decipher.

Once she is engrossed in her research it is near impossible to wrest her away from her work. At one point even a direct summon by Prince Anastasius, a member of the Royal Family was not enough to make her abandon her workshop, though thankfully Rozemyne managed to entice her to come by baiting her with the possibility of Schwartz and Weiss being stolen away, which made her rush over in surprisingly short time.