Georgine

Georgine (ゲオルギーネ, Georugiine) is the first wife of Aub Ahrensbach and the mother of Detlinde. She is Sylvester’s older sister and a former archduke candidate of Ehrenfest.

Georgine has dark green eyes and blue hair that is close to purple, much like her brother Sylvester. She has sharp, pointed facial features and is considered very beautiful. In Ahrensbach fashion, she wears a thin, translucent veil over her face. She bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Veronica.

Georgine is an intelligent, diligent and strong-willed person, but she tends to hold grudges for long period of time. She deeply resents her younger brother Sylvester, believing that he stole the position of Aub Ehrenfest that was rightfully hers. She shows open contempt for him and revels in her newfound position of power over him.

A charismatic leader, Georgine has attracted the loyalty of many former Veronica faction members. Her cunning intellect also allows her to develop sophisticated political schemes, leaving no traces of evidence that lead back to her.

When Georgine talks to people it often feels to the person as if she wasn't really looking at them, but rather through them to some distant point at the horizon, with her focus entirely on her future goals.

Georgine was born the eldest child of Adelbert, the Sixth Aub Ehrenfest, and Veronica, his first wife. Growing up, she was widely expected to become the archduchess of Ehrenfest.

However, her two younger siblings, Constanze and Sylvester, were both born by the time she was eight years old. Under the traditional meritocratic system in Ehrenfest, all eligible heirs of the Aub had a claim to inherit the position. Although Georgine was older and had cultivated considerable support, the preference for male heirs put her at a disadvantage. In the end, the Veronica faction led by her mother backed her younger brother Sylvester.

Georgine attended and graduated the Royal Academy archduke candidate course. Not long after her graduation, she was married to Aub Ahrensbach, as part of Veronica's ongoing efforts to strengthen ties with her mother's duchy. She was expected to work to become the first wife and use her power to support Ehrenfest; however, her grudge against her brother caused the relationship to be hostile, rather than collaborative.

She left for Ahrensbach before Ferdinand first came to live in the castle, so they did not encounter each other until their father's funeral. Since Ferdinand was serving as a blue priest, they did not exchange greetings. Throughout her time in Ahrensbach, Georgine remained in close communication with her uncle, the former High Bishop Bezewanst.

Georgine had several children with her husband. Her only son, Wolfram, died shortly after the end of the civil war, although his death was unrelated to the political purge. All her other children were girls, and only her youngest daughter Detlinde is still unmarried. Her other girls all married into other noble families and thus lost their status as archduke candidates.

Ahrensbach chose the winning side of the civil war, causing it to rise in the rankings compared to Ehrenfest, which remained neutral.

After Sylvester turned his back on the Veronica faction and imprisoned his mother in the Ivory Tower, his former political backers became hostile to him. Instead, many prominent members of the former Veronica faction placed their hopes on Georgine, who resembled her mother and promised stronger ties with Ahrensbach.

Although Georgine's original position was third wife to Aub Ahrensbach, she rose to the rank of first wife in the year following Bezewanst's death. In her first year attending the Archduke Conference, she was able to learn about the true circumstances of the Bezewanst incident that occurred the year prior, and negotiated to secure a visit to Ehrenfest to see his grave.

Georgine continues to harbor a strong hatred for both Sylvester and his adoptive daughter Rozemyne, who was involved in the death of her favorite uncle Bezewanst. After learning of his death, she visits Ehrenfest at the end of summer to visit his grave.

She is warm and friendly toward Wilfried while treating Sylvester and Florencia with open contempt. She also is formally introduced to Ferdinand for the first time. While there, she strengthens her connection with the leaders of the former Veronica faction, including Royella and Gloria.

When she departs from Ehrenfest, Wilfried eagerly invites her to come back soon, unaware of the true political tensions at play. Florencia and Sylvester are unable to take back their son's invitation, and so Georgine easily secures permission to return to Ehrenfest the next summer as well.

Between Rozemyne's second and third year at the royal academy Georgine's carefully laid plans to assassinate Sylvester and take over Ehrenfest's foundation nearly come to fruition, but at the last moment the Ehrenfest nobles enact a purge of all of Georgine's allies within the duchy, with most of them ending up dead which dashes her efforts and sends her back to the drawing board.

Due to Charlotte's attempted kidnapping, Sylvester and Florencia are able to safely refuse Georgine's return visit on the grounds of security. The excuse lasts them for several years, throughout Rozemyne's sleep in the jureve. However, Georgine's daughter Detlinde continues to seek out a connection with Wilfried at the Royal Academy.

Rather than moving immediately to a side building as retired and widows archduke couples are supposed to do, Georgine delays her move for quite some time and keeps living in the archduke quarters until the end of winter of the following year of her husband's death.

At some point during the winter Georgine takes on a new retainer. Nobody outside of her innermost circle seems to know anything about this mysterious scholar-looking person with a magic tool prosthetis for a left hand, but several other Ahrensbach nobles seem to assume he is a former Werkerstock noble who lost his hand by getting caught up in the post-civil war purge of his former duchy.

Upon Detlinde's return from the royal academy Georgine finally tells Detlinde that she was only intended to become an interim archduchess until Letizia comes of age, but is able to blame this entirely on Gieselfried and a royal decree from the zent personally. She is able to preclude a rampage by her daughter by leaning into the Soverein High Bishop's words and "graciously" allowing and "supporting" Detlinde's attempt to become the next zent. She is able to reign her daughter in enough to get a promise that Detlinde will only persue this for about a year and should she fail to obtain the Grutrissheit before next year's archduke conference will give up her aspirations for becoming queen. To facilitate this Detlinde will not fully dye Ahrensbach's foundation and they will continue to just supply it with mana like they have done since Gieselfried's departure.

Ever unaware of even the most obvious political winds Detlinde suggests that Georgine should become the interim archduchess, but unlike her daughter, Georgine is fully aware that near enoug nobody - not even most members of her own faction - would ever approve of her becoming the Aub, even if only temporary, if there is any alternative remaining and thus dismisses the idea by stating that she has no desire to become the archduchess.


 * Seltier - An attendant who served her ever since she lived in Ehrenfest and followed her to Ahrensbach.


 * Grausam - An Ehrenfest scholar who served Georgine and swore his name to Georgine when she was still living in her old home. When she moved to Ahrensbach after her marriage, he had to remain in Ehrenfest. While officially he is no longer her retainer, he kept serving her faithfully until he was took his own life rather than being captured in a recent political upheaval in his home.
 * Rihyarda - As the special attendant who serve the archduke family of Ehrenfest, Rihyarda was assigned to serve Georgine for years, until she was reassigned as Sylvester's retainer.


 * According to author Miya Kazuki, Georgine's rise to the position of first wife was achieved through subterfuge: "The first wife of Ahrensbach is not such a trivial position that one can assume it by chance."
 * Since the first wife of Gieselfried fell ill and died soon after the adoption of Letizia shifted the power balance towards her faction, it is implied that Georgine poisoned her.
 * Georgine won the 4th place of the second popularity poll, despite being an antagonist and only appearing in a few chapters by the time of the poll. She is also the only antagonist that won a place in top 10 among all polls so far.