Hortensia

Hortensia (オルタンシア, Orutanshia) is a sovereign archnoble formerly of Klassenberg and the first wife of the Sovereign Knight's Commander Raublut. She has recently been assigned to the Royal Academy Library.

Hortensia appears to be in her forties and has light-blue hair.

Hortensia shows the same kind of gentle demeanor as Eglantine, and according to Solange is a true bookworm likely to get along very well with Rozemyne.

Hortensia is assigned to the royal academy library in Rozemyne's third year at there. She is also chosen as the new master of the library magic tools Schwartz and Weiss. She has already registered her mana with the pair of shumils, but is only a secondary master for the time being. Only when the amount of her mana inside the pair surpasses that of Rozemyne will she become the primary master, but since Solange only filled them up from a feystone with Rozemyne's mana the day before Hortensia arrived, this will take some time.

When Solange suggests to once again hold a tea party for bookworms this year and explains what it is, she is happy to join.

Ultimately it is Princess Eglantine who hosts the bookworm tea party in her and Prince Anastasius' royal villa. At the party Hannelore tries to appologize for accidentally becoming the master of Schwartz and Weiss for a short time, but Anastasius tells her to not worry, since the fault lies with the library for not informing her. To this Hortensia explains that she never expected the students to come to the library often enough for it to matter so early in the year and thus was too slow to inform Hannelore on time. Rozemyne wonders how this could happen in the first place and the new librarian explains that she had to prioritize other magic tools over the shumil, which Anastasius points out was at the request of the royal family. Since the matter involves the members of the library committee she further explains to the students that she was tasked with taking ownership of the three archnoble librarian keys to enter the restricted archive they opened, but after dying the second key she found that she had lost ownership of the first. To enable the royal family to enter the archive, they request that Rozemyne and Hannelore also take ownership of one key each and to not overburden them the mana supply for the shumil would be done only by Hortensia, Solange and Hildebrand.

Hildebrand is rather sullen about being left out, but Rozemyne is only too eager to accept this. She is disappointed to be forbidden from entering the archive itself, but is promised that she'll be allowed to read any document and book found inside that is deemed safe for her to read.


 * Following the flower theme naming of Klassenberg females, Hortensia means hydrangea in French and German.