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.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 5 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 5 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. .

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 6 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. 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. 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.


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


 * Cambridge Online Dictionary