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I saw this on my youTube suggestions and immediately thought Ascendance of a bookworm. I know it isn't messy enough to be Ferdinand's room, but I could see Little Miss Bookworm locking herself in there.
What do you guys think?
https://youtu.be/NvX9EsqEeuU?si=ylgXVEdz5NaH5dAH
I really love the whole Ascendance of a Website... sorry... Bookworm series. So much so that I am always trying to get other people to read it. And by 'other people' I mean 'everyone I talk to'.
So... I want my mom to read this too, and I don't have to ask her to read it, I can just kind of give it to her and then nudge her along as to how great this story is. But she only reads Spanish... Plus... she's old. 71 years old. I think it would be best for her if I gave her the Manga version of the story. But I can't find it any where I normally look.
I see they are available in Spain... But that's pretty far away, and I can't tell if I order the books from Spain if they would be sent to my USA address.
I know I'm reaching for straws here, but I kind of think a 'forum' is the place to ask this kind of 'series specific' question regarding availability.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
If we take Adelbert's comments about the "guidance of the goddess of time" literally, we can assume the gods at least made sure Ferdinand would be around to guide their future avatar, but how much else did they do?
Did they only forsee that their saviour would be born into Ehrenfest and that Ferdinand would first safe her and then put her on the right path to safe the country, or were they even more hands-on, as in getting involved with Myne's very conception?
Myne looked a lot like Mestionora from birth, but Kamil shares her appearance. The hair is easily explained by coming from Gunther, but the eyes don't fit either parent. That could still be something that skipped a generation and came from one of the grandparents. But if it was the gods, does this mean they did something to Effa, that lasted even past Myne's birth and thus also manifested that hair/eye colour combination in Kamil too?
The next moment is when Myne died, and came back to life with Urano's memories. Did her heart resume beating by chance and the unsealing of the memories was just a consequence of being dead or a moment, or was it direct divine interference that kick-started her heart again? If so, was the return of her memories chance, or also the gods' intent? And if it wasn't interference by the gods, did they leave it to chance, or did Drehgranuhr foresee she'd survive without further interference, as long as Ferdinand was in place to snag her into the nobility.
But if everything was layed out so perfectly, how could the blunder in her second divine posession happen? Did they not tell Erwärmen? Did Erwärmen panick and deviate from the plan? Or could it be that the less mana the country has, the more vague Drehgarnuhr's ability to see the future becomes, maybe even fully cutting out by the time the final confrontation happened?
Hi everyone, I wondered if there might be a fanbook containing the stories of the Bible or so. I didn't find one so if that still doesn't exist, would anybody also wish for such an extra-book? I am really interested in all the stories the bible contains. Maybe also with the hidden pages and so on. 🥰
https://twitter.com/TOBOOKS/status/1809151395473621063
Links at TO Books online store:
Mint Green: https://tobooks.shop-pro.jp/?pid=180912532
I haven't seen the English version anywhere, but strangely there is a Part 3 Volume 1 & 2...
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Due to a video on YouTube by TrashTierWaifu, I was reminded of the white desert outside of Yurgenschmidt'd country barrier and that made me wonder: Could this white sand be, what the Lanzenavians turn into silver equipment?
From Yurgenschmidt it appears that everything alive, and a good portion of the things that aren't alive, all contain at least a little mana. And with how Lanzenavians are not magical blanks that behave like silver material, it's probably the same outside the country. So where would you get material completely bereft of any magic at all?
I think it is very likely that the desert is there in the first place, because the country barrier sucks the mana out of it's surroundings. With how massive it is, I can't really see how the Zent's family alone would be able to maintain it, much less do so on top of maintaining it, the royal palace, the foundation and the royal academy, especially right now with their diminished numbers, lack of divine protections and no Grutrissheit, so where does the mana for the barrier come from? It might come in part from the duchies, but I am strongly suspecting that it's also drawing mana from the outside, which would make the white sand out there a very good candidate for material completely empty of the tiniest speck of mana. Now this stuff could be molten down and formed into solid objects, or be used as part of an alloy... though I don't know how you'd turn sand into fabric to make clothes out of.
It would be a nice piece of irony, if the silver material Lanzenave uses against Yurgenschmidt, only exists because of Yurgenschimdt's country barrier.
Wit Studio is pretty well known, so I don't expect a drop off in quality. We'll see if they do a character redesign, though, which could be a problem.
1. I found it interesting that the White birds don't travel to the feystones of dead people. Which then made me think, "What if I could put a white bird inside a letter white bird? Could I UPS it across a border?" Of course not, right? But then it crossed my mind, "Why are there no package birds?" I mean, storks can carry a full sized baby, right?
2. Eckhardt is being either irrational or stupid. Angelica clearly stated she wanted to test her 'weapons' against the silver men. Which is also important information. Not fisticuffs.
3. Why would Rozemyne need to make Ferdinand a registration feystone if they have the same mana? I mean, even a god can't tell them apart. So it should technically be like he is the foundation stealing Aub as well. But then I thought,
4. How are thier mana the same if Rozemyne's mana produced greater harvests than Ferdinands?
It is easy to tell the story is coming to and end with contradictions increasingly occurring.
We know the language origins for many of the names (mostly German, but Italian and others for more recent names). Should we try to add a pronunciation key to pronounce the names?
You can often just put the name in Google translate and it will figure out the language and give an example audio pronunciation. The tricky thing will be the form of the pronunciation key... should it be based on English word fragment pronunciation? Should we use special characters (many people don't know what they mean).
Or maybe this isn't something anyone else cares about.
https://mipon.org/ascendance-of-a-bookworm-interview-author/
I think this interview took place before spring 2023, even though it was posted in August 2023.
So... firstly I want to say that I have read 'spoilers' all the way to the end of the series. So I knew about everything in this latest section update.
Secondly: that didn't matter! I was still on the edge of my seat as I was reading paragraph after paragraph. Then, I read it a second time, because I thought it so good.
That out of the way... WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH MANA / MAGIC / BLESSINGS???
1st: Magic / Blessing left through a Replenishment Hall, traveled Ahrensbach, CROSSED DUCHY BORDERS, to reach Rozemyne. WTH is up with that after so many explanations that it can't be done? Was it wrapped in silver cloth? (being facetious)
2nd: Both Rozemyne and Ferdinand have the same mana, to such an exactness that even gods can't tell them apart, but yet:
a. Rozemyne needs to take the Foundation in order to enter a Replenishment Hall Ferdinand is mana-registered to?
b. This was also the case with Ferdinand's secret rooms?
c. Gods can't tell them apart, but magic rooms and tools can?
That makes no sense to me. Even with the whole schtappe explanation from the previous section release. They have had the SAME mana since the mind-meld... right?
Side note: Who the hell are they talking about? Is this a translation error?
Just what sister is Detline saying dyed the foundation instead of her doing it? Aurelia is a cousin, right? Gieselfried's other daughters were in other duchies for quite a long time, right. ??
What did I miss? Where did I miss it at? I swore it was just her and a dead brother from Gorgine. The other's being half-siblings, with the females married out of the duchy for several years now!????
What am I missing?
So... devouring children are all born omni elemental, and if you survive dying, you are an Ewigeleibe marked devouring child; ie. a devouring child with solid feystones in your body.
So... if Ferdinand synchronizes with Dirk, Dirk's mana would turn like Ferdinand's for a relative short time. Then go back to its original blank (Dirk) omni elemental state with a higher border gate attribute.
Myne on the other hand can't have her mana return to her own because her numerous feystones were all dyed by Ferdinand? And feystones can't lose the mana that was pushed into them while surrounded by other mana? Even when Myne's own mana capacity increased?
I'm missing something here. It feels like her actual mana is still there, just being over powered by the liquified feystones still in her body no matter how much her own mana increases?
So... would like a battle where she loses blood weaken that? Reminds me a bit like the Tom Cruise movie.... Edge of Tomorrow with the Alpha blood. It doesn't make sense that all these years of Myne compressing her mana was never enough to overpower and dye the liquified feystones in her body, ESPECIALLY when a future spouse can apparently do it!
There's also the whole reveal that anyone can become omni elemental with enough prayer and have each of those increase in power as well through prayer. Yet Myne is dyed for life? No other feystones in the story even do that... ???
Just what am I missing?
In P5V6 Pre-pub (4/8), it tells Rozemyne "brewing" a fey-paper. But as we know that Illgner feyplant (Nanseb and Effon) paper is made in a commoner method (that needs to boil the branch, peel the bark, etc).
Is there really a way for noble to create feyplant paper in a different manner than commoner method? Or does Rozemyne and the other 2 (Hartmut + Clarissa) create the paper in a way that commoner does inside Ferdinand's lab in his estate?
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