Hassheit

Hassheit was Brigitte's previous fiance.

Hassheit and Brigitte were engaged to be married. During the engagement her father died and the post of Giebe passed to her older brother. Her brother was still quite young for such a responsibility and is a poor negotiator.

Hassheit and his family thought to use the weakness and inexperience of the new Giebe to their advantage to take over the province for themselves, even going so far as to plan to kill him once the marriage put them into the succession for the title. When Brigitte found this out, she immediately cancelled the engagement with no regards to the societal norms or consequences. This kind of behaviour is unbefitting of a noble of her station and resulted in grave consequences for her and her province, leading the majority of the local nobles to abondon Illgner and move to other provinces.

Brigitte had to endure mocking from higher and equal-ranking nobles and whispering behind her backs from laynobles ever since, on top of the harrassment by Hassheit and his family.

Before her second Starbind Ceremony, Rozemyne created a new dress that suited Brigitte's body type and made her look beautiful. At the same time, Sylvester announced Ferdinand was returning to noble society.

Partly due to the stunning beauty that the new dress brought out and partly for the political implications of the personal backing of Rozemyne and her mother Elvira, many nobles of eligible age became very interested in Brigitte.

Hassheit was the first to make his move and re-proposed to Brigitte, in a very disrespectful way full of poorly veiled mocking, using metaphors to imply among other things that after the way she cancelled their previous engagement, nobody else would be willing to marry her anyway. However, Damuel cut Hassheit off and then proposed himself, asking for her to wait for one year so he could grow his mana capacity to a level that would allow the two to marry. Brigitte used this to cut any possibility of talking to Hassheit ever again.

With Brigitte having the personal backing of both Lady Rozemyne and her mother Lady Elvira, Hassheit has little choice but to accept his loss and move off.