Drewanchel



The Duchy of Drewanchel is a region on the western side of the kingdom of Yurgenschmidt, rated as a greater duchy.

The territory is bordered by the following other territories:
 * The Sovereignty to the East
 * The duchy of Lehmbruck to the Northeast
 * The duchy of Gilessenmeyer to the North
 * The duchy of Immerdink to the West
 * The duchy of Hauchletzte to the Southwest
 * The duchy of Kirschnereit to the South
 * The duchy of Lindenthal to the Southeast

Spoiler from Royal Academy Stories - First Year The symbol of the archdukal family is a divine beast with the appearance of a snake.

The scholars of Drewanchel are renown as Yurgenschmidts foremoest researchers.

About 80 years ago it was nobles from Drewanchel who invented a magic tool that consumed Human waste and took the shape of a slime. In addition to this slime itself, they also drew up plans on how to use it as part of toilets and sewer systems and presented all that at the interduchy tournament. After establishing these systems in their own duchy and testing them for the rest of the year they presented the results to the king and these measure were established at the Royal Academy and Royal Castle shortly after.

From there this new invention spread all throughout Yurgenschmidt, trickling down from the highest ranking to the lowest duchies, bringing Drewanchel much prestige and earning them large amounts of money.

Drewanchel is currently third highest ranked duchy in the country.

It currently has two archduke candidates attending the Royal Academy, the fifteen year old Lady Adolphine and her ten year old brother Ortwin.

The invention of the sanitary slime was not a fluke or one time affair. The scholars of Drewanchel are highly regarded throughout the land and always among the fore-front of magic tool innovations. For this reason the duchy is very interested in Rozemyne and her inventions. Particularly the Verification Paper has piqued their interest.

Lady Adolphine also has shown great interest in Rozemyne. At the archduke conference Aub Drewanchel stated that she adored Rozemyne like a little sister. Though in light of the two girls only having interacted once, it isn't clear how much of this is truth and how much political manouvering.

At the fellowship gathering in the following term at the academy, Adolphine appears to have treated her hair with something similar, but not quite of the same quality as rinsham, leading Rozemyne to suspect that she handed the sample she received the year before over to the researchers of her home duchy and that they deduced at least in part how to make their own. Judging by the appearance of Adolphine's hair, though, they have yet to match Ehrenfest rinsham in quality.

The scholars of Drewanchel have also shown great interest in Ehrenfest's Verification Paper. When Adolphine inquires about it to Rozemyne, she refers to it as a magic tool usable even by commoners, making it very likely that even the renown scholars of Drewanchel have so far been unable to deduce what it is made from, since the people of Ehrenfest who are familiar with the production process do not even consider it a magic tool. To avoid giving away even the tiniest bit of information by mistake, Rozemyne deflects by claiming she believes it was not presented at the archduke's conference because Aub Ehrenfest didn't consider it significant or noteworthy enough for such attention.

Both those instances only serve to further reinforced Rozemyne's opinion of Drewanchel as the duchy of mad scientists.

Up to and including Rozemyne's first year at the royal academy, Drewanchel managed to win the best combined grades of all students each year for a consecutive 20 years.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 At a tea party in Adolphine's final year at the academy, she confirmed to Rozemyne that their duchy had indeed managed to analyze rinsham, but only had partial success in making their own. While their product brought out the glossiness of hair almost on par with the original rinsham, their version is not kind to the scalp, making it far less pleasant to use.