Ferdinand/Relationships

The Sixth Aub Ehrenfest is Ferdinand's father. Ferdinand had gone into the Temple before his death, denying him the ability of attending the funereal as son. Ferdinand attended as a mere blue priest instead.

Bonifatius is Ferdinand's uncle. Ferdinand sees him as a headache. He wouldn't leave Ferdinand alone during Rozemyne's term in the jureve, often disrupting him while he was already swamped with work.

Ferdinand's real mother is unknown, thanks to her being a concubine. Due to his high mana level, he became an archduke candidate and Veronica's son. Veronica hated him and mistreated him due to her paranoia that Ferdinand would steal her actual children's place. After his father's death, Veronica's torment towards him grew increasingly stronger, making him follow his brother's advice to flee to the temple where Veronica could not touch him. Ferdinand is highly antagonistic towards her and her entire faction. He finally manages to overthrow her thanks to her error in forging a permit for Count Bindewald at Bezewanst's request which then caused Rozemyne (formerly Myne) to be attacked in the temple.

Ferdinand dislikes Georgine, his half-sister, seeing her as a threat. He notices how she revitalises Veronica's faction and is wary of her, especially considering the risk she holds for Rozemyne.

Sylvester, the Seventh Aub Ehrenfest, is Ferdinand's half-brother. Ferdinand cares about Sylvester, helping him out and supporting him, following his unreasonable demands after unreasonable demands as well as taking care of parts of his work. They have a good relationship regardless, as Ferdinand doesn't complain and sees Sylvester as family.

Florencia is Ferdinand's sister in law. Ferdinand sees her as someone who can control her husband.

Wilfried is Sylvester's oldest son. Ferdinand despises him at first as he sees him as a layabout who throws about his status, doesn't listen or sit still, and doesn't act becoming of his rank. He advises Sylvester to remove him from the line of succession. He takes great pleasure is showing Wilfried just how incompetent he is. After Rozemyne's interference, he starts learning a little, though he still makes a mistake when he enters the White Tower. Afterwards, Wilfried finally apologizes. Ferdinand accepts the lesser punishment and then complements Wilfried on his sincerity. During Rozemyne's absence due to her jureve, Ferdinand and Wilfried grow somewhat closer, Ferdinand acting as an advisor to him and helping him navigate the difficulties of handling Rozemyne and the Royal Academy.

Rozemyne is the daughter of his friend and cousin Karstedt and the adopted daughter of Aub Ehrnefest, making her effectively his niece. He is Rozemyne's guardian. Ferdinand spends a significant amount of time training and preparing Rozemyne for noble life. He remarks that he likes seeing her viewpoints of things as it is very different from everyone else. Ferdinand is very close to Rozemyne, letting down his guard significantly more around her. Though often irritated by Rozemyne's antics, he regardless listens to her viewpoints and respects her ideas, advising her on navigating noble society. Ferdinand feels comfortable enough around Rozemyne to eat her food without testing it for poison.

Later Rozemyne adopts a role of managing Ferdinand as well after he holes up in his workshop to research instead of eating and taking care of himself.

Charlotte is Sylvester's second child. At Charlotte's request Ferdinand trained her to take care of spring prayer and the playroom along with her brother, Wilfried.

Melchior is Sylvester's youngest son and Ferdinand's nephew.

Karstedt is Ferdinand's cousin and close friend, as well as the head of the Knight's Order. Ferdinand trusts Karstedt, sometimes visiting his manor to speak to him. Ferdinand shares his thoughts and worries with Karstedt, even asking him to adopt the then Myne.

Elvira is Karstedt's first wife. Ferdinand respects her and her faction completely unaware of her love for him beyond her admiration.

Eckhart is Karstedt's eldest son and Ferdinand's loyal guard knight. Ferdinand is aware of how devoted Eckhart is to him and welcomes him as a knight.

Justus is Ferdinand's information gatherer and scholar. Justus, similarly to Eckhart, has devoted his life to serving Ferdinand.

Lasfam is a retainer who takes care of Ferdinand's estate.

Arno was Ferdinand's head attendant until his disloyalty was discovered, after which he climbed the towering staircase.

Fran was Ferdinand's best and most trusted attendant which he transferred to Rozemyne at her arrival at the temple to report on her, serve her loyally, and educate her about her new status.

Zahm is another one of Ferdinand's attendants that he sent to Rozemyne along the way.

Benno is a merchant in the lower city who works closely with Rozemyne. Ferdinand has a camaraderie with Benno thanks to the archduke's unreasonable demands. He requests the Rozemyne send him a warning before being summoned abruptly to spare him the pain of what happened with Haldenzel and Elvira.

Ferdinand's awareness of Lutz is that of someone Rozemyne relies on as well as her only link to her Lower city family.

Though Bezewanst is his uncle, As he is not a noble, Ferdinand sees him only as a frustrating meddling old man full of unreasonable demands reveling in his status of High Bishop. Ferdinand watches his corruption with disgust and slowly and surely takes over more and more work from him due to his utter incompetence.

Kampfer is a blue priest in the Temple that underwent Ferdinand's grueling training ritual to become competent at their job. He was trained to help Ferdinand with temple paperwork.

Frietack is another blue priest that underwent grueling training to be able to help Ferdinand with temple paperwork.

Though Ferdinand wasn't present during Christine's time at the temple, he respects her love for music and recommends her former retainer, Rosina to Rozemyne as a music teacher and personal musician.

Myne is a commoner given blue robes due her her mana and wealth. When they first met, Ferdinand saw her potential and asked whether she had noble ancestry in an effort to train her. Ferdinand is somewhat wary of her as well due to her irregular and unexplainable behavior, confused by her desires. It is only once her amount of mana makes her a threat and he is forced to peer into her mind that he realises that she really is only devoted to books. Ferdinand is somewhat envious of her happy family life.

Ferdinand quickly grows fond of Myne, someone who's emotions are easy to read and who doesn't hide herself like the other nobles. He is astounded by her accomplishments as well, and quickly realises how valuable she is for the duchy, wanting to adopt her among noble society to secure her. He defends her against at the trombe extermination, getting angry when she is harmed and his orders to protect her are disobeyed.

Rihyarda was Sylvester's attendant, and is now Rozemyne's retainer at the castle. She raised Karstedt, Ferdinand and Sylvester (those mostly Sylvester) and holds a certain amount of power over Ferdinand. To his irritation, she calls him "my boy" as he isn't married yet, and Ferdinand goes out of his way to avoid her. Rozemyne used her against him once to make him do the Harspiel Concert, launching a back and forth between Rozemyne and Ferdinand to get petty revenge on each other.

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