Sigiswald

Sigiswald (ジギスヴァルト Jigisuvaruto) is the first prince of the kingdom and Anastasius' older brother.

Sigiswald has a very calm and serene demeanor and exudes an air of diligence.

At their graduation ceremony, Sigiswald escorted an archduke candidate from a middle duchy and later married her with the understanding that she would become his second wife once he married a woman from a greater duchy.

According to information gathered by Adolphine, Sigiswald cares deeply for his wife Nahelache.

He asked for Eglantine's hand in marriage, but unlike his younger brother, he did so solely for political reasons, since the one to marry her is almost assured to become the next king.

When his younger brother Anastasius offers to relinquish his claim on the crown, if Sigiswald retracts his marriage proposal to Eglantine, Sigiswald accepts, securing his own guaranteed succession to the throne in exchange for enabling his brother and his lover to marry. After some hard work on his part, Anastasius also manages to convince King Trauerqual, Aub Klassenberg, and Eglantine's biological grandfather and adoptive father, the Previous Aub Klassenberg to agree to this arrangement, making it official.

With Eglantine now removed from his consideration for a first wife, Sigiswald gets engaged with Adolphine of Drewanchel.

So that his new fiancée could wear the new kind of Ehrenfest hairpin at her graduation, despite Drewanchel not yet trading with Ehrenfest, Sigiswald personally ordered such an ornament for Adolphine directly from Rozemyne.

Sigiswald and Rozemyne meet for the first time face to face in her third year at the Royal Academy. The three princes invite her to Anastasius' villa to talk about an archive that only royalty and archduke candidates can enter, which she relayed to them upon learning of its existence from Ferdinand. Ultimately Rozemyne is unable to give any more answers than beyond what she sent in the letter already, and so Sigiswald decides to gather the three holders of the keys in the library and check the archive themselves.

Once the three holders of the keys - Rozemyne, the Dunkelfelger archduke candidate Hannelore, and the archnoble librarian Hortensia - open the archive, Rozemyne reluctantly refuses to go inside, since her guardians forbade her to. Hildebrand is also unable to enter the archive, since its protective barrier won't admit him due to having a too small mana capacity, and as Hortensia is not a royal or an archduke candidate, she can't enter either, so Sigiswald and Anastasius begin their search with only Hannelore to help them.

Inside they find many ivory tablets inscribed with accounts in ancient dialects, which neither of the princes is able to read, and while Hannelore is able to understand them, she takes a lot of time to translate them, so the princes go back to the waiting area. Sigiswald does not want to make Rozemyne break her promise with her guardians, but due to the great need still reluctantly asks her for help, making the girl waver. Seeing this, Anastasius orders her to help them. Sigiswald is quit to chastise his younger brother to not abuse his powers, but Anastasius explains that this is the best way. Rozemyne clearly wants to go inside the archive too, but is held back by her promise. A royal decree would supersede any authority her guardians have and thus her entering would not break her promise, since she has no choice but to obey, giving both the princes and Rozemyne herself what they want. Seeing how gleeful Rozemyne is about the prospect of entering the place, Sigiswald relents.

Inside, the princes keep reading through the few bound books, since they are written in modern vernacular, while Hannelore and Rozemyne check over the ivory tablets. Since Rozemyne is far more used to reading ancient dialects, her joining speeds the work up considerably. With her help, they are able to find several useful pieces of information, including the mana compression method of a previous sovereign, information on how that person prepared for the ritual to receive divine protections, and details on a no longer used inauguration ceremony of old.

In a short break, the princes also question Rozemyne about her divine protections and extract the information that she was able to obtain the protection of a total of 43 gods. She also explains that her brother Wilfried, who obtained 12 divine protections - only uses about 70 % as much mana and she only 40 % compared to before the ritual and that it is very likely that even adults can re-do the ceremony for the chance to obtain additional protections and how they can incorporate prayers into their everyday life to increase the chances for getting them.

When the library closes, they have trouble prying Rozemyne away from the books and documents, resulting in Anastasius literally carrying her out of the archive by the scruff of her neck. To make sure she can't go into this place, where her retainers can not enter on their own, Sigiswald forbids Rozemyne from going into the archive without a member of the royal family present

A short time before the date of his Starbinding with Adolphine, Nahelache gives birth to Sigiswald's first child. To avoid negatively influencing the child with another woman's mana, Sigiswald informs his fiancée that they will delay marital intimacy, but due to the dire mana situation of the royal family, is unwilling to delay the marriage itself until next year, as common decency and tradition would usually demand, much to Adolphine's open dismay.

To quell the voices that call for Anastasius or Detlinde to become the next Zent, the royal family pressures Lady Rozemyne into performing the Starbind Ceremony at his and Adolphne's wedding, to provide them with a true blessing. The Sovereign Temple uses this opportunity to promote themselves, by providing Rozemyne with instructions on how to perform the ancient form of the ceremony with the Divine Instruments of the God of Darkness and Goddess of Light, resulting in a rather spectacular ceremony, stunning all the onlookers. In addition to the blessings for the couples, during the ceremony, magic circles appear similar in appearance to the one that was seen in Detlinde's Dedication Whirl, on the stage beneath Sigiswald and Adolphine and rise into the air briefly, before dissipating again.

This is seen as a great boon to the royal family, since it proofs that Sigiswald is at the very least equally qualified in the eyes of the god as Detlinde.

In the following few days, Rozemyne ends up inadvertedly becoming a Zent candidate, which Anastasius notices and tells the rest of the royal family. This makes them determined to win her for the Sovereignty, so she can help them obtain the Grutrissheit. For this end, Sigiswald has a private conversation with Rozemyne in the underground archive, between just the two without any retainers present and even goes so far as to disperse of all noble euphemisms, speaking completely candidly and allowing Rozemyne to do the same.

Due to some of the country's magic tools starting to break from the lack of mana, with one already having been destroyed, the royal family feels they can not wait for Rozemyne to come of age and thus pressure Ehrenfest to allow them to adopt her as soon as possible, and have her marry Sigiswald as his third wife at a later date. Sigiswald negotiates some preliminary conditions with Rozemyne and hears her suggestions for the rest of the negotiation, but ultimately the final decisions will be made between Zent Trauerqual and Aub Ehrenfest. Rozemyne's relentless mechant insticts quickly leave the prince exhaused and out of his depth.


 * Divine Protection: Sigiswald has the divine protection of all primary gods he has an affinity for, but none by subordinate gods . It is currently unknown how many and which ones they are.