Hirschur

Hirschur (ヒルシュール, Hirushuuru) is a former Ehrenfest noble employed at the Royal Academy as a professor and overseer of the Ehrenfest Dormitory.

Hirschur has violet eyes and black, slightly wavy hair which she wears pulled back in a bun. She is about 170 cm (5’7”) tall. She usually wears a monocle on her left eye.

While she is perfectly capable of showing the usual noble etiquette expected of an archnoble, she apparently shares Ferdinand's dislike for anything that delays her unnecessarily. As a result she chooses to forgo the lengthy euphemisms and overly polite ways of her class whenever she can reasonably get away with it, preferring instead to be surprisingly direct and curt in her conversations. She is practically obsessed with research, fitting the image of a "mad scientist" to a T in Rozemyne's opinion, even more so than Ferdinand.

To Rozemyne it is rather clear that Ferdinand picked up many of his unusual personality quirks from Hirschur.

The monocle that Professor Hirschur wears is a magic tool that is helpful in seeing and understanding magic circles. It is unclear at the moment in which way this works or whether it has any functions beyond this.

Since at his time in the academy Ferdinand's ability to compress mana surpassed what the regular magic tools to show mana density can display, she built a new one specifically to measure him. She later used the same tool to measure Rozemyne.

Hirschur is regarded as a genius at the Aocal Academy, albeit a very excentric one, in her field of specialization. Prince Anastasius once remarked that not even Professor Gundolf was able to follow some of her discoveries.

As the overseer of the Ehrenfest Dormitory it would usually be expected of Hirschur to live in the Dormitory she is nominally in charge of. She however chose to retain the room in the scholar building of the central complex of the academy, that she had been living in since her schooldays, to have fewer potential distractions for her research. Her experiments also at time produce foul smells, making the residents of Ehrenfest's facilities somewhat glad Hirschur chose to deviate from the norm int his case.

In previous years Hirschur is said to only enter the Ehrenfest Dormitory twice a year and prefers to stay entirely out of regular business to be able to devote as much of her time as she can to her experiments into alchemy and magic tools.

Much to everyone's surprise, Professor Hirschur breaks with her habit of only interacting with the dormitory she is nominally in charge off due to Rozemyne managing to catch her attention to a degree that she visits the Ehrenfest facilities several times in the first few weeks - something completely unheard of from her.

This interest goes so far that she even starts to occasionally send actual reports back to Ehrenfest, instead of just repeating the message that basically says that nothing noteworthy happened over and over again at each scheduled time.

Her open mind to new ideas and propensity for experimentation is amply demonstrated upon seeing Rozemynes drivable highbeast. Rather than resisting the idea due it going against tradition, she immediately embraced the concept for it's practicality and creats a shumil-inspired version of the same concept for herself, but with the reigns she is more used to rather than the steering wheel and pedals Rozemyne favors. It is also thanks to her that the rumors that Rozemyne attacked Fraularm with her "weird feybeast highbeast" were officially dismissed as a misunderstanding on Fraularm's part, with many believing that Fraularm tried to claim this to have been an attack to cover up her embarrassment over fainting upon seeing the weird wing-less construct fly perfectly well.

In the course of Rozemyne's first academy term, she even starts to consider moving to the Ehrenfest dormitory to not miss out on all the peculiarities surrounding the girl. This is further reinforced upon first eating Ehrenfest's new cuisine, which apparently is to her liking.

Having the opportunity to study the magic circles of the two library magic tools Schwartz and Weiss fills Hirschur with a lot of enthusiasm and she immediately volunteers to participate in the creation of new clothes for them, by researching, replicating and improving upon the magic circles that had been woven in the two shumil's clothes by their previous master. Unlike the ancient magic circles used on the shumils directly, the formulae on their clothes are something that she manages successfully transcribe and decipher. The circles on the bodies themselves however elude her, due to partially being on the insides, making it impossible gain the full picture without cutting them open, which neither their protective enhancements nor Rozemyne would ever allow.

Once she is engrossed in her research it is near impossible to wrest her away from her work. At one point even a direct summon by Prince Anastasius, a member of the Royal Family is not enough to make her abandon her workshop immediately, though thankfully Rozemyne manages to entice her to come by baiting her with the possibility of Schwartz and Weiss being stolen away, which makes her rush over in surprisingly short time.

Initially Hirschur kept in contact with her prize student Ferdinand after his graduation, but when he moved to the temple, this contact broke off completely. When Rozemyne prepares to go back to Ehrenfest for the Dedication Ritual, Hirschur uses the opportunity to have the girl - or rather her retainers - deliver entire boxes full of magic tools that Ferdinand built, but which have since stated to deteriorate to her former student, so he can repair them. She also sends all her notes on the magic circles of Schwartz and Weiss, along with her preliminary analysis and findings, hoping Ferdinand will be able to help further in deciphering them.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 6 In Rozemyne's second academy term, Hirschur is in charge of the class on basic potion brewing. When during class Rozemyne approaches her unusually early with well-cut ingredients and confirms that she is already familiar with brewing, Hirschur coopts her into her teaching plans. Instead of delivering a demonstration herself and then have Rozemyne brew her potion afterwards, she has Rozemyne's own brewing work as the demonstration to save time, displaying a devotion to efficiency very reminiscent of her former student Ferdinand.

She is very impressed with how neatly Rozemyne chopped her ingredients and surprised when the girl even drawn a magic circle to speed up the brewing process. She gives a cursory explanation of the circle to the other students, but due to the added difficults of keeping the mana-flow steady cautions them against employing similar circles of their own until they are more experienced. After ascertaining the quality and efficiency of Rozemyne's potion with a magic tool, she gives Rozemyne a passing grade.