Rauffen

Rauffen (ルーフェン, Ruufen) is a professor at the Royal Academy and the dormitory supervisor for Dunkelfelger.

Rauffen is a “hot-blooded gym teacher type” with a passionate love for the sport of ditter. He is a good sportsman who enjoys having a skilled opponent: When Ehrenfest defeated his own Dunkelfelger students in a match of treasure-stealing ditter, he praised the victors for their strategies and was delighted by the quality of the match. He tends to shout when he gets overexcited.

When Rauffen entered the Royal Academy as a student, his enthusiasm for ditter managed to catapult his duchy into the top rankings, where it has remained there ever since.

As a professor, Rauffen primarily teaches apprentice knights. However, he also helps first year students learn mana compression and schtappe fundamentals.

Professor Rauffen, along with Professor Hirschur, is one of Rozemyne’s supervisors during her mana compression course. She finds his enthusiastic encouragement more distracting than helpful. Later, he is one of the teachers in the first year class for schtappe fundamentals, where he teaches Rozemyne to use the incantation rott.

When Lestilaut, an archduke candidate from Dunkelfelger, gets into a dispute with Rozemyne over the custody of Schwartz and Weiss, Rauffen asks Prince Anastasius to allow them to resolve the issue with a game of treasure stealing ditter, to which the prince agrees.

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.


 * Rauffen’s katakana name (ルーフェン, "Ruufen") is more directly transliterated as "Rufen”. His name may have been inspired by "rufen" which means "to call" in German. The official English translator chose not to use "Rufen,” because a five-letter name would look very short in comparison to other noble names. Instead, the new name was based on the similar-sounding and fitting word “raufen,” meaning “to brawl”. The translator also added an extra “f” in “Rauffen” to make the name at least seven letters long.


 * Cambridge Online Dictionary
 * Wiktionary, the free dictionary