No worries about the rant. With how malleable the magic is in canon I’m always amazed at how rigid most believe it is. The ordonnaz seems to contain a script for a specific bird but I’m wondering if that could possibly be changed out for different species to correspond to different uses. Like maybe an albatross being able to cross duchy lines but being super mana inefficient for shorter messages. Or a hummingbird for more discretion and a quieter playback. Or owls imbued with Verbergen’s blessing and nigh impossible to intercept at night. Endless possibilities. 🤔
Didn’t Konrad technically not exist by nobility standards? He wasn’t baptized and Philine wasn’t in her majority to be able to formally request assistance from her employer as family head. Buying someone else’s adult mistress/servant might be slightly easier as a male. Isolde is an information specialist archducal scholar so I would foresee Sylvester as Aub limiting her out of duchy marriage options to those with more status, like Dunks, or, like Alexandria, more dirt on Ehrenfest already. Mel asking sis for help need only be for Myne to provide more options or a bit of encouragement. His efforts to curtail shears may embolden his budding faction and draw admiration from woman led factions like Charlotte and Elvira. It will bring distance between the brothers only if Isidore is snubbed directly rather than by association with his parents’ actions. Wilfried is also well driven by loyalty to those directly serving him.
I have plans for many fun twists on ordonnanz. The humming bird one sounds adorable. I can see it being a fun way to flirt by sending them across a room, giving their message while floating next to someone's ear. I don't think the ordonnanz not crossing boarders is has to do with the magic tool itself. I think something about being in a different duchy makes it impossible to track you. Brigitte tries to send one to Rozemyne and it refused to fly entirely. Then again the foundational magic is mysterious in many ways.
Like, how does the contry know your name? I would get it if it had to do with baptisms but Ferdinand was baptized as Ferdinand, not Quinta. It seems to just know the first thing you were called after birth. Why can't Erwaermen update his database when explicitly asked? How can it tell two people apart when the gods themselves can be tricked? The Garden of Beginnings gave Myne a schtappe but the Supreme Gods gave her repeat names. Its implied that those names override the countries identification system. Can it detect manaless foreigners? Is mana generated or has trading it away slowly drained the land permanently? The mysteries abound.
The gods being so pants at using what is presumed to be the systems of Yurgenschmidt lends credence to the idea that they took over an existing world and created poorly designed hotfixes filled with buggy software. “Users” possibly are redundantly “named” as they are born; the name parents give, nicknames, aliases, adoptions, etc. With Ferdinand I can see his continued denouncing of his own self worth causing his original Name to retain the primary status when the gods look up his files. “Ferdinand” is the Name of someone not born to be a feystone unlike “Quinta”. Myne getting repeat Supreme Couple names is because being dyed overwrote whatever coding individualizes souls to gods (User error) but the world itself recognizes that she is a separate physical entity and so was able to impart a new schtappe.
The ordannaz get their destination codes (User name) from the minds of the sender but it has to ping on a local server (Foundation) that doesn’t speak to any of the firewalled server units connected to the main server. Possibly, only a sitting Zent with a dyed country Foundation would be able to send message packages across servers via ordonnaz. The water mirrors are hardwired connections. I wonder if anyone other than a Zent candidate could make something like the phone-shumils work because I think that Mestionora’s Book acts somehow like a wireless switchboard, like phones had way waaay back when people manually connected devices.
And I like conversing with you as well. Theory crafting is amusing. 💜
My theory is that humans took over the gods system and adulterated it. Not to say that the gods are blameless just have different priorities. I don't want to spoil anything even something 700,000 (how did we get here?) more words away. I will say that the Country (main server?) recognizes all individuals with mana and assigns them a unique identifier which attaches to their earliest memory related to identification in lieu of proper registration. Earwax can't update Ferdinand's name because Ferdinand can't erase his own memories of being called Quinta and was never "properly registered".
phone-shumils? Is that a Han Y5 thing? Rozemyne hasn't displayed a capability to send ordonnanz across duchy boarders. That doesn't mean that the M-book can't do it just that we haven't seen it. I do wonder how much power a Zent with Wisdom would have. Its implied that the duchies are currently getting away with murder because King T can't hold them accountable but its also implied that support from the duchies is still needed even if you have the book. Maybe the Zent is supposed to be more of a mediator than a monarch but the Royal Family expanded their role and took more power. It would make sense since the temple's are supposed to serve all citizens equally. The Zent is supposed to act as a sort of prophet/liaison for the gods and battery for the land.
I wonder how much Kasuki-san thought about all this?
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