Elvira

Elvira (エルヴィーラ, Eruviira) is an elegant archnoble who is influential among noble women and hosts tea parties. She is Karstedt's first wife and mother of Eckhart, Lamprecht and Cornelius. Elvira became the noble mother of Rozemyne, introducing her to women's noble society and teaching her etiquette.

She is a dignified and elegant woman. She is the head of the Leisegang faction which is opposed to the Veronica faction. This results in her getting along with Ferdinand because of the abuse both got at Veronica and her allies' hands.

She becomes the de facto mother to Rozemyne. Although it was surposed to be Karstedt's third wife Rozemary to be Rozemyne's mother, she takes the authority over it and Rozemyne does call her mother in public. It was never explicitly stated who is the mother of Rozemyne by Karstedt or Ferdinand. This does lead to the issue later with the attack on the archnoble children which is seemingly lead by a member of Rozemary's family.

As stated Elvira is the head of her faction, which comes in conflict with the previously more powerful Veronica faction, which caused a lot of friction at home as well as politically for her. Her husband's third wife was part of the Veronica faction, which is part of the reason, why her husband and her were having issues around the time Rozemyne joined the family. Florencia also is in Elvira's faction due to Veronica disliking Florencia.

When Rozemyne needs to raise money to fund expansion of the budding printing industry and to support the orphanage, Elvira organizes a tea party and shows her daughter how to collect money among the noble society. Upon learning of this "new trend" Rozemyne is starting, most of the nobles present initially believed that it was actually Elvira who started it and is giving credit to her daughter to ease her entrance into noble society.

Elvira was also key in organizing Rozemyne's fund raising concert starring Ferdinand, which was a great success bringing in a lot of money, though also angering Ferdinand due to Rozemyne unintentionally causing Rihyarda to lecture Ferdinand like a little boy and because of illustrations of him being printed without his knowledge or permission. This causes him make Rozemyne promise she would never again print any illustrations of him without his express permission, which he would surely not give. This caused quite some despair among the noble ladies and Elvira in particular who are all very fond of the illustrations drawn by Rozemyne's attendent Wilma.

While Rozemyne keeps her promise not to print any regular illustrations, she does manage to sneak some illustration-like objects under Ferdinand's nose that look like nothing but random lines on the back of the reports about the usage of the money earned in the concert, but reveal a picture of Ferdinand upon being folded into an origami paper-shuriken, to the great delight of the present ladies, Elvira included.

Once Elvira finds out that Rozemyne is making a new dress for Brigitte, she leads Rozemyne and makes sure that the dress is properly presented into women society and as part of Elvira's faction while having Rozemyne taking full credits for the design. As she said: it is part of the archnoble's job to start new fashions and trends.

While Rozemyne is unconscious for 2 years, Elvira takes the lead in the printing business and wants to set up her own printing workshop in her home province Haldenzel. She contacts Benno to begin the preparations, which puts the Plantin Company and all Gutenbergs in a bit of a pinch, due to Elvira not understanding how much time and effort it takes commoners to prepare for winter, leaving them little time to also prepare the tools, materials and train personell needed for a new workshop. Thankfully Benno is able to convince her to delay until the following spring, since Haldenzel's rivers all freeze over in the winter, which would have made paper-making impossible either way.

Due to being unable to set up her own workshop, she opts to print her manuscripts in the Rozemyne Workshop in the temple in the meantime, with Ferdinand's permission.

Elvira's books focus on romance stories and she enjoys the experience of writing new books. She also managed to sneak in some illustrations of Ferdinand - drawn by one of her own artists rather than Wilma - while printing at the Rozemyne Workshop, which technically does not violate Rozemyne's promise to never print illustrations of Ferdinand again, since Rozemyne herself was not involved in any way and was even comatose at the time.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 2 Upon Rozemyne's return from the Royal Academy she learns that Elvira has been very lively as of late. Apparently she found great enjoyment in writing books and is very pleased with her new hobby.


 * Elvira really likes the pictures of Ferdinand that were sold by Rozemyne at the charity concert. She tries to get more only to find out that Rozemyne is banned from selling more by Ferdinand. But Rozemyne hints to Elvira that she can still make and sell them.
 * The main hero of Elvira storys looks like Ferdinard. Ferdinard does not notice due to him having a lot of paper work and being very tired and tells Fran to print what ever Elvira wants.