Solange

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Solange (ソランジュ Soranju) is a mednoble employed at the Royal Academy as a professor and librarian.

She looks like an elderly lady with blue eyes and light-purple hair who wears a peaceful smile and is a little chubby.

She is very protective of the library and very friendly with students who share her passion of books. She is having trouble powering all the protective tools in the library and is very happy when Rozemyne reactives Schwartz and Weiss.

Due to the purge following the civil war practically all other librarians were called back to more active roles in noble society or executed. In the absence of any archnobles, Solange had to step up and become the Head Librarian, despite only being a mednoble. In addition to having to run the entire library completely on her own, as a mednoble she also lacked the mana capacity to keep all magic tools in the library running and the authority to force students of archnoble or archduke candidate status to return borrowed books, making her job very hard.

Recently her situation improved thanks to the Ehrenfest student Lady Rozemyne ending up reactivating the shumil-shaped magic tools Schwartz and Weiss with an accidentally slipped out blessing upon registering for the library. . The two priceless artifacts have since taken over quite a bit of the routine work like lending out and retrieving carrel keys and documents, enabling Solange to dedicate more of her time to other tasks that she was previously forced to neglect due to a lack of time.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 2 Seeing Schwartz and Weiss admired by the female students makes her feel nostalgic for the times prior to the civil war. Even back then the two shumils were the center of attention for many female students.

As their formal master, Solange diligently kept pouring mana into Schartz and Weiss during their dormancy period. While this was not enough to activate them, it made sure that the wards of the two magic tools would stay active and prevent theft and meddling. After Rozemyne reactivated them, Solange kept contributing mana to them to lessen the potential burden on Rozemyne.

She prays to the statue of Mestionora on the library's second floor at the end of each workday.

Solange appears to have something of a sweet tooth, prefering her Pound Cake with sweet toppings like honey or rutreb jam, rather than cream or rumtopf. However comments about how Pound Cake, even with the sweet toppings, was "easy to eat" hints at the overly suggary confectionary common in the Sovereignty being too sweet for her. She seemed very interested in the paper that Rozemyne has invented and spends more time investigating the paper then the sweets.

Recently she has been often accosted by archnobles and archduke candidates of higher ranking duchies who tried to order her to give them Schwartz and Weiss. A "Lady from Ahrensbach", most likely Detlinde, has been particularly insistent in making Solange tell her how to become the master of Schwatz and Weiss.