• No_Nick_Needed@bookwormstory.social
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    1 year ago

    True to some extend, but I still think it’s incredibly stupid and/or shortsighted.

    In her time in the spotlight Rozemyne made quite public friends with some very high status people, in particular Eglantine, Adolphine and Hannelore. Hannelore might not be the kind of person to go out of her way to punish Murrenreue for insulting her friend, but Adolphine and Eglantine are (just ask Detlinde) and as royal princesses and Eglantine being a professor of the very archduke candidate course that Murrenreue is obligated to take, there are various ways in which they can punish her.

    There’s also the issue of what Rozemyne’s supposed to do as the Sovereign High Bishop, namely going around the duchies to teach them. With someone from Immerdink already being on record for attacking her (albeit it was an accident and Harmut was the intended target), she surely would have a good enough reason to refuse going to Immerdink. But even if she’s made to go there, she could still teach them in a way that makes them unable to do the ceremonies correctly and then claim it is their own incompetence that is to blame, after all, all the other duchies managed to do it right, or some other stuff that would leave them at a disadvantage compared to the other duchies that didn’t personally piss Rozemyne off.

    Murrenreue either prioritized her own emotional satisfaction, over the good of her duchy, or she failed to consider the potential consequences her words and actions might have not just for herself, but her entire duchy. Either one is marking her as stupid and/or shortsighted and quite the failure as an archduke candidate, who should at all times be conscious of how their behaviour reflects not just on them, but their whole duchy and prioritize the good of the duchy above everything.

    And in light of how that aforementioned accidental hit of Rozemyne by that Immerdink archnoble (not even an archduke candidate, but a mere archnoble!) was enough to significantly contribute to their duchy losing yet another place in the rankings, it makes this blunder all the more idiotic.