Kamil/Story

Kamil is born shortly before Myne was attacked by Count Bindewald and thus has no memory of his sister.

While he may remember seeing the High Bishop on numerous occasions when his family went to watch her, he is unaware of his relation with her. With the secrets and the pain surrounding Myne's supposed death, her family as good as never talks about her. This led to Kamil not even knowing her name when he was three years old.

He loves the toys and books that Lutz brings him, but is unaware that they were actually made by Rozemyne.

When he was very young Kamil believed that the books and toys came from Lutz himself, but when he gets older his parents tell him that they come from Lady Rozemyne. They say it is because Lady Rozemyne feels partially responsible and sympathetic to his family, because she was the target of the noble from another duchy that killed Myne. Despite this nice gesture his parents are still weary of nobles and thus forbid him from discussing these gifts with anyone.

The only exception to this are Lutz and the orphans from the temple. He occasionally meets the orphans while out foraging in the forest and is quite happy to being able to finally have someone to gush about the books and toys with. On such meetings he also became friends with Dirk and Konrad. He even sometimes takes his karuta deck with him to the forest to play with them. Dirk is a very tough opponent that he only rarely manages to beat, but Konrad was easy pray at first. Only recently has Konrad's skill grown considerably, which Kamil chalks up to getting far more practice than him. As a result he starts to play against his mother and when she visits with Tuuli as often as he can.

Something his parents forbid him from talking about to anyone - including the temple orphans - is his older sister, which is not particularly difficult for Kamil since he knows practically nothing about her anyway, due to his family basically never talking about her in his presence.

At some point after getting five Tuuli takes Kamil along for a visit to the Gilberta Company, where he plays with the children Renate and Knut. He is easily able to win against the young boy, but the girl is roughly equal to him, resulting in them having roundabout a 50% winrate against each other. This pompts Renate to declare he should join the Gilberta Company so she could play against him all the time until her winrate got to 100%. Ever the doting father Otto immediately latches on to the idea and begins to pressure Kamil to really join his store. Benno intercedes and states that since Kamil likes books and toys far more than hairpins and clothes he would be far better off jointing the Plantin Company instead and the brothers in law begin a heated discussion about it. Eventually Tuuli breaks them up wishing to leave the decision to Kamil himself, rather than the two far too forcefull adults. For his part Kamil is quite in favour of joining the Plantin Company once he is baptized, since that would allow him to see how the books and toys he likes so much are actually made in the Rozemyne Workshop and he could work together with Lutz, Dirk and Konrad.

Lutz offers to take him under his wing and train him at the end of winter to prepare him for the life of a merchant. Since Lutz is still not experienced enough in noble etiquette to visit the castle, his winter work pretty much ends with the praparations for the yearly book-fare and he has plenty of free time while the other leherls are at the castle, which he offers to use to teach Kamil, so he will have a smoother entry into the profession than he had himself.

Kamil is very willing to take him up on that offer and later tells his parents that he wants to become a merchant and join the Plantim Company to spread books far and wide. For reasons he can't figure out this causes his parents to react shocked and Effa even cries a little, but against his momentarily flearing up fears, his parents readily agree to his choice and allow it.

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