Rauffen

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“	Might I suggest we settle this through a game of ditter?	”
— Rauffen to Anastasius in Part 4 Volume 2, Chapter 8: The Battle for Schwartz and Weiss

Rauffen
Name
Katakana:	ルーフェン
Romaji:	Ruufen
English Name:	Rauffen
Debuts
Light Novel:	Part 4 Volume 1
Physical Characteristics
Gender:	Male
Birth Season:	Summer
Location
Country:	Yurgenschmidt
Duchy:	Sovereignty Dunkelfelger (Former)
City/ Province:	Royal Academy
Personal and Professional
Status:	Noble (Unknown Rank)
Education:	Royal Academy Knight's Course
Occupation	Royal Academy Professor Dunkelfelger Dormitory Supervisor

Rauffen (ルーフェン, Ruufen) is a professor at the Royal Academy and the supervisor of the Dunkelfelger Dormitory.

Personality

Rauffen is a “hot-blooded gym teacher type” with a passionate love for the sport of ditter. He is a good sportsman who enjoys having a skilled opponent: When Ehrenfest defeated his own Dunkelfelger students in a match of treasure-stealing ditter, he praised the victors for their strategies and was delighted by the quality of the match. He tends to shout when he gets overexcited.

History

When Rauffen entered the Royal Academy as a student, his enthusiasm for ditter managed to catapult his duchy into the top rankings, where it has remained there ever since.

As a professor, Rauffen primarily teaches apprentice knights. However, he also helps first year students learn mana compression and schtappe fundamentals.

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Etymology

Name	Japanese	Romaji	Assumed Etymology	Assumed Translation
Rauffen	ルーフェン	Ruufen	roufen (Old High German), alt. rouffen (Old High German) -> raufen (DE)	Brawling/Grappling

Trivia

• Rauffen’s katakana name (ルーフェン, "Ruufen") is more directly transliterated as "Rufen”. His name may have been inspired by "rufen" which means "to call" in German. The official English translator chose not to use "Rufen,” because a five-letter name would look very short in comparison to other noble names. Instead, the new name was based on the similar-sounding and fitting word “raufen,” meaning “to brawl”. The translator also added an extra “f” in “Rauffen” to make the name at least seven letters long.
• Being a Sovereign noble formerly of Dunkelfelger his cape is a combination of the Sovereignty's black and his old home's blue.

Additional References

• Cambridge Online Dictionary
• Wiktionary, the free dictionary