Sidonius

Sidonius (シドニウス Shidoniusu) is a mednoble and the governing noble of the province of Wiltord in Ehrenfest. He is a member of the former Veronica faction and the father of Freuden and Laurenz.

When he hears the news that his son Freuden's wedding to the Ahrensbach mednoble Bettina has been approved, Sidonius is delighted. He immediately sends word to his friend and ally, Giebe Gerlach.

One and a half years after the wedding in winter Ehrenfest enacts a thorough purge of anyone associated with either the former Veronica faction or Georgine. The purge is unusually merciful by the standards of Yurgenschmidt nobility, forgoing the traditional guilt by association within families and reserving the death sentence only for particularly severe crimes and those name-sworn to Georgine. As someone directly involved in Georgine's conspiracy to assassinate and replace Sylvester, Sidonius is among the dead, though it is unclear whether he was executed, committed suicide or died while resisting his arrest. Apart from him, his wife, his older son Freuden and his daughter-in-law Bettina also fall victim to the purge. The only known survivor of Sidonius' family is his younger son Laurenz, who is instead required to give his name to a member of the archducal family and chooses to serve Lady Rozemyne.