Lestilaut

Lestilaut is an archduke candidate from Dunkelfelger and a student at the Royal Academy. He is the older brother of Hannelore.

Lestilaut is a tall and athletic boy; Rozemyne thinks he looks more like an apprentice knight than an archduke candidate.

He appears to be rather arrogant and looks down upon duchies of lesser rank. Rozemyne considers him to be a "musclehead".

He demonstrated a tendency to act without thinking things through, when escalating a dispute over the master-ship of Schwartz and Weiss into full-on combat within the halls of the Royal Academy.

As relatives of the king's third wife, Lestilaut and Hannelore occasionally visisted her and her son Prince Hildebrand at their royal villa in the Sovereignty, but didn't form a particularly close relationship with the prince.

Lestilaut cares deeply for his little sister. When he heard Hannelore wish to be Schwartz and Weiss's master, he immediately went into action to launch a misguided attempt to obtain what she desired. In true Dunkelfelger fashion, he tried just charged straight in, without even appearing to considering that he was rushing head-long into a major diplomatic incident with the duchy of Ehrenfest.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7 While most of his interest seem to revolve around martial activities, Lestilaut also has a keen interest in the history of his homeduchy and is very well versed in it.

During Rozemyne's first year at the royal academy, Lestilaut becomes aware of the Ehrenfest girl having somehow become the master of the royal heirloom magic tools Schwartz and Weiss. When Rozemyne takes the pair of shumil-like magic tools to the Ehrenfest dormitory to be measured for new clothing Lestilaut gathers students of various duchies to confront her, stating suspicions that Ehrenfest might steal these magic tools.

They gather near the Ehrenfest dormitory and when Rozemyne and her retainers, accompanied by many more apprentice knights emerge, the group led by Lestilaut blocks their route and confronts them.

Upon hearing that Rozemyne was on her way to return the magic tools to the library many students are satisfied there had just been a misunderstanding that Ehrenfest didn't intend to steal the magic tools and consequently went back to their own dormitories. Lestilaut and a small group made up mostly of Dunkelfelger students remain confrontational, insisting that Rozemyne turn over master-ship of Schwartz and Weiss over to him, due to a greater duchy being much better suited to handle royal heirlooms than a mere middle duchy. To Lestilaut's surprise Rozemyne agrees that having someone from a greater duchy as their master would be much better, but also insists that she will only relent if the person in question fulfills certain qualifications, asking whether Lestilaut is willing to visit the library personally.

When he states that an archduke candidate has no business going to the library and is supposed to have their underlings handle such mundane matters, Rozemyne outright refuses to transfer master-ship of the magic tools. When the Ehrenfest students try to rush through the other students to reach the library, a student from the blockading group launches an attack, leading to an actual fight breaking out. Despite the efforts of Lestilaut and his allies, Ehrenfest manages to break through and nearly reach the library, when Prince Anastasius and orders everyone to stand down.

At the prince's behest, most of the students are dismissed, so he can handle the issue with just Rozemyne and Lestilaut - the respective leaders of the clashing groups - and summons their dormitory supervisors. In the meeting Professor Rauffen suggests to settle the matter in a match of Treasure-Stealing Ditter, stating that this will show which of the two duchies is better suited to protect the magic tools and Anastasius agrees to the proposal.

Unexpectedly Rozemyne decides to not merely spectate, but to personally participate in the ditter match, despite being an archduke candidate and just a first year student. To avoid losing face, Lestilaut also participates. With Dunkelfelger currently running a considerable winning streak in ditter and Ehrenfest regularly ending up even behind a couple of duchies ranked lower than them, nobody expects much of the middle duchy and sees Dunkelfelger's victory as a foregone conclusion.

During the match Rozemyne employs some unconventional tactics and catch their opponents completely off guard and under her guidance they manage a spectacular victory over their technically much stronger opponent. Lestilaut feels very much humiliated by Rozemyne's earlier defiance and this victory, but has no choice but to accept the outcome, cementing Rozemyne as the proper master of the magic tools. He does however state that her victory was only won by dishonorable and immoral ways and calls her status as the "Saint of Ehrenfest" in question. He also nurses a serious grudge against her for quite some time. With this opinion Lestilaut finds himself in the minority though, since most of the participating and spectating knight apprentices are impressed with Rozemyne's skill and adaptability, as well as her humility after the match, where she openly admits that her duchy was only able to win through tricking their much more coordinated and powerful opponent.

Spoiler from Royal Academy Stories - First Year Following the match Professor Rauffen makes changes to the training regimen of the Dunkelfelger apprentice knights, to account for the weaknesses revealed by the match. When he sees this Lestilaut rebukes him and orders that the training should once again be focused exclusively on speed ditter since he considers the duchy rankings to be their highest priority. Rather than just standing down, Rauffen went on to explain why he felt it was important to keep those changes, not for the duchy rankings, but for the apprentices' futures beyond the royal academy. When Lestilaut keeps insisting, Rauffen calls his qualities as an archduke candidate in question, if he can not separate his own personal feelings over the loss from what is best for his duchy.

In anger Lestilaut strikes out at Rauffen with his schtappe transformed into a sword, but after an exchange of several blows, Rauffen manages to disarm Lestilaut, bringing forth more arguments. Following this Lestilaut turns around without saying a word at first, but then tells his guard knights to participate in the training and that his attendants of the sword will suffice as guards before moving off.

In the Autumn following Hannelore's first term at the Royal Academy, Lestilaut and his sisters were invited to Prince Hildebrand's baptism, alongside Eglantine.

During the fellowship gathering in Rozemyne and Hannelore's second year at the academy, when the Ehrenfest archduke candidates greet their Dunkelfelger equivalents, Lestilaut is witness to a talk between Hannelore and Rozemyne, where the latter states how much she enjoyed the book Hannelore had lent her. Lestilaut appears impressed that Rozemyne was able to dicypher the archaic dialect in which the book his sister hand lent out was written, though he quickly falls back to his arrogant attitude or perhaps trying to provoke her by pointing out Ehrenfest's short history. Rozemyne does not rise to the bait and remains acting humble, but Hannelore is rather upset with him for his impolite comment. .

According to his sister, Lestilaut actually had somewhat noble intentions in trying to wrest Schwartz and Weiss away from Rozemyne. As it turns out his actions were a misguided attempt to help his little sister. After seeing the two shumil-like magic tools the first time Hannelore whispered dreamily that she wished she could be their master without thinking or any actual intent behind the words.

Spoiler from Royal Academy Stories - First Year Unfortunately at that moment her cousin and Lestilaut's retainer Rasantark was within earshot and misunderstanding the situation went off to tell his master how much Hannelore wished to be the master of the magic tools.

Upon hearing this, her brother started his quest to obtain said mastership for her sake without ever bothering to ask or tell her about it. On account of attending a class at the time Hannelore only learned of his brash actions well after it was too late and the issue had already come to Prince Anastasius' attention, much to her distress.

Spoiler from Royal Academy Stories - First Year
 * Rasantark - Archnoble apprentice knight and cousin of Lestilaut and Hannelore.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 7
 * Kentrips - apprentice scholars.


 * According to Prince Anastasius Lestilaut lacks an affinity for Darkness. His other affinities are unknown at this point.


 * Cambridge Online Dictionary