Rozemyne

Rozemyne (ローゼマイン Roozemain) is the new protagonist of Ascendance of a Bookworm after Myne’s purported death at the end of Part 2 Volume 4.

She is baptised as the daughter of Karstedt and Elvira, and later adopted by Sylvester and Florencia as an archduke candidate of Ehrenfest. Currently, she serves as the High Bishop of Ehrenfest’s temple and is a student at the Royal Academy.

Rozemyne has golden eyes and silky, midnight-blue hair that is unusually glossy. Her skin is quite pale due to spending her childhood bedridden by fevers. According to Karstedt, she has “a pretty face” and will “no doubt grow up to be a true beauty.” Due to her illness, she is small enough to pass as several years younger than her true age. Her short stature and hair and eye colors lead Sylvester and some others to compare her to a shumil.

She wears her hair in complex braids secured by hair pomades, usually with a decorative flower ornament. Her outfits are tailored by the Gilberta Company, typically using fabrics that match the divine color of the current season.

Rozemyne cares deeply about her friends and loved ones, and she will act without hesitation to protect them from danger. However, she draws a clear distinction between those she feels responsible for and those she is indifferent to. Because she dislikes suffering and shows concern to others regardless of social status, she has a reputation for being compassionate and is often scolded for being “too soft”.

In addition, Rozemyne has a soft spot for younger siblings, like Kamil, Charlotte, Melchior and even Letizia to a certain extent. She tries her hardest to look good in front of them, enjoys their praise and admiration, and is extremely protective towards them.

In private, Rozemyne still shows Myne’s carefree and lively personality. Although she learns how to conceal her emotions and act gracefully in the manner expected of a noble of her status, her candid nature occasionally still shines through. She has been reprimanded on several occasions for speaking too openly to high-status nobles, and she is aware that she is not very socially adept.

Deeply influenced by her experience as an apprentice merchant, Rozemyne prefers to be independent and self-sufficient. She believes that even nobles should not be above earning their own money, and insists on personally covering all her expenses. She also believes in providing fair compensation for anything of value, including products, services, and knowledge. Karstedt reflects that while she looks like a child, she has “the rational mind of an adult”. She has proven to be exceedingly competent when needed and capable of learning quickly.

Despite her mature outlook, she often rushes headlong into new situations without thinking, which can cause a wide range of unpredictable outcomes. She tends to lose her temper and her sense of perspective when her books or her loved ones are at stake.

Rozemyne is a false persona devised by Sylvester, Ferdinand, and Karstedt to allow her to become a noble for her own protection. Using a magic contract, Sylvester changed Myne’s name and forced her Lower City family to swear to treat her as a stranger. Her old identity, Myne, is legally dead.

Originally, Sylvester suggested that Rozemyne be baptized as the daughter of Karstedt's late third wife, Rozemary, who, like Rozemyne, had an unusually high amount of mana. According to this story, Rozemyne was hidden in the Ehrenfest Temple in secret to protect her from the power struggle between Karstedt's first two wives and his third wife after Rozemary’s death.

However, Elvira immediately saw through this story. She pointed out that introducing Rozemyne as Rozemary’s daughter would reginite the familial conflict. Instead, she agreed to baptize Rozemyne as her own true daughter as a favor to Ferdinand. In private, Cornelius is told the original cover story: that Rozemyne is Rozemary’s daughter.

Rozemyne’s prior absence from the nobility was excused by the fact that nobles don't typically announce their children until their baptism. She was re-baptized the next summer and formally announced to the nobility, then immediately adopted by Sylvester as the daughter of the archduke.

To justify the baptism, Rozemyne’s offical age is one year younger than Myne’s. This also helped to explain her small size, since the slow growth caused by the Devouring makes her look at least two years younger than girls her age.

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Rozemyne continues to employ her existing attendants from her time as an apprentice shrine maiden, as well as her guard knight Damuel. She also gains additional guards and retainers to her service, as expected for a noble of her status.

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 * Mana Capacity: Rozemyne has an unusually high mana capacity for an Ehrenfest Archnoble. Despite her young age, she has already surpassed every other noble in the duchy - including the Aub - except for Ferdinand.
 * Mana Affinities: Rozemyne possesses all seven elemental affinities, a rare occurrence normally found only in royalty and the archduke candidates of greater duchies.
 * Blessings: Rozemyne has shown great proficiency with a variety of blessings, and can invoke multiple gods at once. She occasionally gives blessings without meaning to by praying and singing religious songs. At least once, she successfully improvised a blessing that did not follow the exact wording of an established prayer.
 * Highbeast: Her highbeast is designed to be drivable. It can carry several passengers and their luggage, and she can increase or decrease its size at will. She modeled it after a Red Panda, but it also bears a resemblance to the bad-smelling and vicious grun. She named it Lessy.


 * Math: Thanks to her studies as Urano, Rozemyne is very good at math. Her method of doing written arithmetic makes her unique in Ehrenfest, where most people use an abacus. She can also calculate large numbers in her head well enough to put even some merchants to shame.
 * Language: Rozemyne is very skilled in anything to do with language. She is able to easily read several ancient dialects that even other high-ranking nobles can barely decipher. She's also very good at taking complicated texts and abridging them into simpler language suited for a specific target audience. An example of this is her series of children's bibles.
 * Education: In both the temple orphanage and the children's playroom in the Archduke's Castle, Rozemyne demonstrated great skill in teaching others and organizing study schedules. She is also a fast learner, able to keep up with Ferdinand’s demanding expectations.
 * Negotiation: Thanks to her experience as an apprentice merchant, Rozemyne is a very skilled negotiator, capable of getting terms in her favor even when negotiating against people with higher authority. She's also perceptive in people's true desires, allowing her to win people over and motivate them to act in her bidding.
 * Music: Due to Ferdinand and Rosina's extensive training, Rozemyne's skill in playing harspiel is way ahead her peers. She has a good ear for music and near-perfect pitch, allowing her to recreate many of the songs she heard as Urano.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 4
 * Despite her dislike of it, Rozemyne is actually quite skilled in embroidery for someone her age.


 * When suggesting ideas for her new name as a noble, she suggests "Mynenigou" (Second Myne), "Aratamyne" (New Myne) and "Akaimyne" (Red Myne).
 * Rozemyne is a portmanteau of Rozemary and Myne, designed to be long enough for a noble’s name, not too similar to Myne, but close enough that any accidental slips can be easily explained away.
 * Rozemyne is actually nearly a year older than Wilfried. However, due to her fake baptism, he is considered her “older brother” by about half a year.
 * Age is a complicated subject for Rozemyne, who has four different ages depending on the critera:
 * Her chronological age as Myne, counted since she was born in Gunther's family.
 * Her official age as Rozemyne, which is one year younger than her chronological age.
 * Her biological age as Rozemyne, which is technically two years lower than her chronological age and one year lower than her official noble age, due to spending two years in a Jureve, which completely halted her growth.
 * Her mental age includes her 22 years as Urano, her five years as the original Myne, and all the years following that, except for the two years spent unconscious in her jureve.
 * Rozemyne is often compared to the Goddess of Wisdom, Mestionora, who was said to have night-sky hair from the God of Darkness and moonlight-gold eyes from the Goddess of Light.
 * Rozemyne beat Ferdinand once in Reversi. She took advantage of Ferdinand who played the game for the first time, but soon got beaten and have no chance of winning ever again.
 * She is the 3rd most popular light novel female character from 2020.
 * She enjoys that at the Royal Academy there is a more relaxed atmosphere, allowing her to act more like family with Cornelius, without any adults scolding them right away.
 * Rozemyne's favourite tea is teegabt and ergey at a ratio of 2:1 with plenty of grauvache milk
 * Rozemyne's preferred massage oil after baths changes with her mood