Lamprecht/Story

Lamprecht formally meets Rozemyne as his new younger sister on the morning of her noble baptism. When Wilfried dragged Rozemyne away after the ceremony, Lamprecht followed after them and was alarmed at the sight of Rozemyne collapsing. He later asked Ferdinand what would make a good apology present. As suggested, he offered Rozemyne a book.

Seeing Rozemyne's advanced progress in her schoolwork, Lamprecht occasionally asks her to help encourage Wilfried to study harder. However, Ferdinand forbids her from getting involved on the grounds that she already has too much work to do. In the end, however, Lamprecht's wish is granted. Wilfried and Rozemyne swap places for a day as an object lesson. Lamprecht accompanies Wilfried to the temple as his guard, where he is forced to help Ferdinand at the temple doing math-related paperwork.

Seeing just how horrible the state of Wilfried's education truly is, Ferdinand becomes furious and even goes so far as to demand the boy being disinherited, believing he does not have the ability or attitude to become the next archduke. Thanks to Rozemyne's intervention, however, Ferdinand agrees to secretly test Wilfried to see whether it is truly the fault of the boy himself or his environment. Once Wilfried - prodded along by Rozemyne's temple attendants - manages to memorize a prayer, Ferdinand is finally convinced that the situation did not come about as a result of any mental deficiency on Wilfried part, which leads him to harshly scold Lamprecht for his role is allowing the situation to deteriorate this badly. During the lecture, Ferdinand gets so furious he uses his mana to crush Lamprecht, leaving him barely able to breathe.

Shortly after, Oswald approaches Lamprecht and suggests he leave Wilfried's service of his own accord, since with Veronica out of the picture he could now do so without risk to himself or his family. For some time, Lamprecht seriously considers this option and visits his mother to discuss this both for advice and since his decision will have a big impact on the house as a whole. She points out that should he choose to resign his position he would be welcome in Rozemyne's service. Later his father - having heard of their conversation from Elvira - advises him not to serve Rozemyne, since he isn't cut out for the things expected of her retainers, like participating in religious ceremonies, helping Ferdinand with paper work, and interacting with commoners.

After he leaves the room, his brother Eckhart also approaches him and delivers a rather vicious lecture, laying down how in his eyes Lamprecht has become corrupted by the Veronica faction and their mainly mednobles of that faction. In Eckhart's opinion, switching sides to follow the most powerful people is something for med- and laynobles, while archnobles should either make sure their chosen master stays the person in power whom the lesser nobles follow or be that person in power themselves, calling Lamprecht even considering resigning a half-measure. When Lamprecht points out that he took up the position of Wilfried's guard knight to protect their family, when Eckhart turned it down, his brother tells him that he was very willing to take up the position himself, but their father intervened to stop him from doing so, since Eckhart wanted to do so to get close enough to Veronica to assassinate her. When his brother learns of his doubts of whether he was even still needed by Wilfried, Eckhart tells Lamprecht that rather than listening to Wilfried's head retainer, he should ask for his master's opinion.

Upon his return to his master's chamber, he does exactly that and learns that Wilfried does indeed still wishes for Lamprecht to keep serving him. This steels his resolve, and he decides to stay on as his guard knight and by doing so forms much closer bonds to his fellow retainers.

While Rozemyne is asleep in the jureve, Lamprecht's request to marry Aurelia - his beloved from Ahrensbach - is formally refused by Aub Ehrenfest. With Veronica no longer being in a position of power and her former faction having lost most of their influence, the bad blood that has been caused by Ahrensbach's involvement with all three attacks on Rozemyne, as well as Georgine's provocations, the Aub wants to minimize any kind of contact with their southern neighbor. Meanwhile, Aurelia's father has come around to be in approval of the marriage, due to Lamprecht successfully being able to increase his mana capacity, thanks to the compression method he learned from Rozemyne, to a degree that satisfied the Ahrensbach noble. While he is disappointed, it is considered an unavoidable outcome due to the political tensions between the two duchies.

In the Archduke Conference following Rozemyne's first year at the Royal Academy, Ahrensbach successfully pressures Ehrenfest into authorizing the marriage between Lamprecht and the Ahrensbach girl he had wanted to marry: Aurelia, the niece of Aub Ahrensbach. The wedding of Freuden and Bettina is also authorized. While the marriage is in Ehrenfest's favor, since it brings more mana into the duchy, it is not clear what Ahrensbach will want in return.

Due to the political situation, Lamprecht, Aurelia, Freuden, and Bettina will have their marriages officiated at a Starbind Ceremony at the border. Only the families of the spouses and the archducal families will be present, along with the High Priests and High Bishops of the two duchies.

Despite fears to the contrary and an attempted ambush of the coaches bringing the grey priests and the Divine Instruments, which the Knight's Order is able to thwart thanks to information leaked by disillusioned children of the former Veronica faction led by Matthias, and the clear distrust between the two duchies' respective guard knights, the marriage ceremony is finished without incident.

Rather than getting a mansion of their own, Lamprecht and his new wife move in at the Karstedt estate in a side-building, where Elvira carefully vettes and regulates the visitors Aurelia is allowed to receive. While Lamprecht worries that his wife might feel imprisoned, Aurelia is actually quite happy about her new reclusive and peaceful life and very reluctant to venture out and interact with other nobles for fear of being persecuted. This fear stems from being persecuted throughout her entire childhood, and furthermore, having an appearance almost identical to Lady Gabriele when she married into Ehrenfest, leading her to believe that many nobles of Ehrenfest would despise her, especially those of the Leisegang family.

This fear also results in her always wearing her veil if there is even the smallest chance someone might enter the room unannounced, which in essence means she only takes the veil of when solely in the presence of her trusted attendant Riadina. Even in the presence of Lamprecht, she almost always keeps the veil on, due to the presence of his retainers.

When Aurelia appears unable to make up her mind whether to join the Florencia faction, Lamprecht states that if she wanted to, he is willing to join the former Veronica faction for her and risk a falling out with his family. Though he also is convinced that once Rozemyne and Wilfried marry, the two factions will peacefully merge into one, so any fallout would only be temporary.

Eventually, however, after a tea party with her new sister-in-law, Aurelia is able to bond with Elvira and decides to join the Florencia faction, much to Lamprecht's relief.

Hearing how well Aurelia gets along with Rozemyne prompts Lamprecht to once again brag about his little sister, something he apparently does quite regularly.

Within half a year of their marriage, Aurelia and her husband are able to conceive their first child, though with the pregnancy only being discovered at the beginning of winter and only in its early stages, the knowledge is so far only told to their close relatives.

The child is expected in autumn, but is only born in early winter. Lamprecht is able to be there at the birth, but due to the political upheaval and the Lord of Winter hunt, is unable to see his wife and son again until winter is nearly over. When he arrives back home, he is surprised that his mother has taken Aurelia into the main estate, where she and the child now life in one of the guest rooms, since raising a child in Lamprecht's own room is ill advisable due to the many weapons in there, and Aurelia didn't want to be a nuisance and have furniture moved around. For the sake of their child, Aurelia is even willing to not put on a veil so the boy can grow up knowing his mother's face.

Due to the purge and how others - particularly from the Leisegang faction - might use their newly swelled power to lash out at Aurelia over being a former Ahrensbach noble, Elvira insists that the existence of the child is kept secret from even their extended family and only known to their closest relatives. Aurelia in turn insists on informing Rozemyne, due to how much the girl helped her in the past and how much she was looking forward to meeting the baby. With the Leisegang's ambition to elevate Rozemyne to the next archduchess in the wake of Count Leisegang Emeritus's death, it is however deemed unwise to have Rozemyne visit the Karstedt estate and thus it falls to Lamprecht to inform her in private.

Shortly after Rozemyne's return from the Royal Academy, Lamprecht is able to have a tea party with his sister and deliver the good news, while also stressing to keep this a secret. They also talk about their half-brother Nikolaus. With his mother Trudeliede imprisoned and her side-building in the Karstedt estate being closed down as a consequence, the Nikolaus currently lives in the castle. Despite his unfortunate circumstances, Lamprecht tries his best to talk Rozemyne out of rushing in to help the boy and other children in a similar situation. During their meeting, Wilfried joins them and also insists that anything concerning the children in the playroom falls under Lady Florencia's purview and thus Rozemyne should not take any action without talking to her first.

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