Rauffen

Rauffen (ルーフェン Rufen) is a former Dunkelfelger noble currently employed as a professor at the Royal Academy.

Rauffen is an overmotivated, but good-natured musclehead, more likely to shout at the top of his lungs in excitement than to talk normally. When Ehrenfest managed to defeat Dunkelfelger in a match of treasure-stealing ditter, he was enthusiastically praising the victors for their strategies and taking delight in the quality of the match despite his own home-duchy losing.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 2 Rauffen is an absolute ditter enthusiast. When he entered the Royal Academy as a student his enthusiasm for the sport managed to catapult his duchy into the top rankings and they have remained there ever since.

For the most part Rauffen is teaching subjects of the Knight's Course, but he also helps out teaching first-years in schtappe fundamentals.

Professor Rauffen is one of the teachers in Rozemyne and Wilfried's class for schtappe fundamentals. Under his guidance Rozemyne learns to use Rott.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 2 When a conflict over the possession of the library magic tools Schwartz and Weiss ensues between their current master Rozemyne and Dunkelfelger's Lestilaut and comes to the attention of Prince Anastasius, Rauffen suggests to solve the issue with a game of treasure stealing ditter, which the prince agrees to.

Rauffen is delighted when Rozemyne, despite being an archduke candidate and a first year, decides to join the match personally, admiring her dedication and spirit. Despite his close connections to Dunkelfelger from growing up there and being the overseer of their dorm, he is nevertheless very happy about the quality of the match and the miraculous victory Rozemyne manages to lead Ehrenfest to, praising her unorthodox, yet effective tactics, even going so far as to compare her to Ferdinand.


 * Looking at the japanese name ルーフェン, "Rufen" as transcription seems to resemble the japanese more. "Rufen" stands for "rufen" which means "to call" in German. The translator Quof decided to translate ルーフェン to "Rauffen" instead of "Rufen" as "Rufen" only consist of five letters, which is quite short for a noble name in comparison to other names. As the etymology of "raufen" fits the character and looks kind of similar to "rufen", Quof decided on "Rauffen" with an added  to make the name at least seven letters long.


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