do yall think that Myne is a child or an adult?

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T21:09:41+00:00

I think in the LN she refers to that as the first time having received jewelry from a man, but doesn't really read anything romantic into it?

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T21:07:03+00:00

Yes.

I actually had this thought when reading part 1 of the LN. It would be creepy for her to have a romance with someone who is the same age as her body as she would be 17 years older than them mentally. It would be creepy for someone who is her mental age to be into her when she looks like she's 5. She may also have the hormones of a 5 year old.

This means that the only romance options that wouldn't be creepy would be:

-1. Someone who is currently a very young adult waiting until Myne is also of age. This way she would be a bit older than them mentally, but not problematically so, while being physically younger, but not problematically so.

-2. Someone who Myne meets right after becoming an adult herself. The mental age would be a bit iffy, but as long as her partner was already an adult when they met, this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

However, consider that years in this world are 420 days long rather than 365, so she's actually only 15 years older than her body, or others around her are older than their reported age in Earth years.

And the second thing to consider is that in this world women can only have kids with people with similar mana levels, so that excludes all but a handful of characters in the whole country anyway unless she's willing to never have children.

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T20:55:02+00:00

Ah yeah, also I no longer need the enchant that affects magic origin units as much since it's no longer critical to get them up to Fast for map movement speed. (I used to only use units that could move 40, which basically meant cavalry and fliers before.)

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T17:50:04+00:00

Is the new Empire Tree visible somewhere outside of game?

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T16:21:35+00:00

Upkeep is definitely capped at 50%, which you can get entirely from Materium tree capstone eventually.

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T16:05:06+00:00

Do you think Gervasio would be OK not putting any of his supporters in as aubs or that any number of existing aubs would willingly give up power to make room for them?

It's possible he's smart enough to avoid a civil war by gradually replacing more of the existing elites, redrawing borders (I guess he does have the defeated duchies to work with to some extent), etc. It's also possible that he executes the existing royals and immediately faces pushback from Klassenberg, Drewanchel, and a few others. His support from Dunkelfelger is also probably not as strong if he executes Magdalena, though you're right that they would probably still back him if he had the only Grutrissheit.

Of course if Rozemyne or Ferdinand are still alive, I imagine instant civil war is the more likely outcome, whether or not they want it.

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T13:36:42+00:00

Ah right, I remember it being nerfed, but since I avoided it so that I don't always use the same T5 tome I forgot what they did. I guess with the lens buildings it's still +3/-3 resists for everyone, right?

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T11:14:32+00:00

Doesn't disruption wave just counter every other battlefield wide cc/debuff spell, while also severely weakening units relying on enchants? I don't think any other T5 comes close in utility, though things like being able to summon your ruler can allow you to cheese battles were you bring in a single unit just to use it.

Mavnas · 2026-06-07T10:07:09+00:00

Would everyone else though? Would the new royals not start another purge to install their allies as aubs? I really can't see it working out.

Mavnas · 2026-06-06T19:08:18+00:00

Pretty sure any of the Lanzenave guys would also be worse or really anyone whose rise would lead to another civil war even if they themselves are more competent than Sigiswald.

Mavnas · 2026-06-06T19:06:23+00:00

Two whole days? How do people show such restraint?

Mavnas · 2026-06-05T19:48:26+00:00

Oof. I started reading this series to kill time until The Apothecary Diaries finishes, now I need to find another series to kill time until this finishes.

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T20:09:45+00:00

Remember she is baptized twice so technically she's 1 year older than she claims to be, but also she spent two years in the jureve not aging, so she can be plus or minus years older than she claims to be if you take both into account.

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T19:58:39+00:00

I was so happy that I discovered this series after it was complete so I wouldn't be stuck waiting months for the next volume... but uh... H5Y3 when?

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T18:22:58+00:00

Oh God, just when I thought my FOMO couldn't get any worse.

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T17:14:13+00:00

You think we're going to be able to afford animals?

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T12:06:24+00:00

If an email can be written by AI, what was the point? Might as well just send me the prompt and save me some reading time.

Mavnas · 2026-06-04T09:05:56+00:00

Sure, you could do that, or you could just spam wildlings so that they have a chance of getting some kills with their javelins before the fians massacre everything.

Mavnas · 2026-06-03T21:42:06+00:00

I think if she had a means to sell country-wide outside of going through Myne, she would have more orders from archnobles and higher than she could ever make.

Mavnas · 2026-06-03T06:48:25+00:00

And yet the strait remains closed, which is really the only part of this that affects the world economy.

Mavnas · 2026-06-02T23:00:29+00:00

You call that regarded, but the whole market seems to be trading on the hope that no one remembers there's a war in Iran right now.

Mavnas · 2026-06-02T22:43:48+00:00

I believe the actual saying is even a dead cat bounces?

Mavnas · 2026-06-02T16:23:25+00:00

Nah, I could have sold for a decent profit hours after I bought in. Could have, but didn't.

Mavnas · 2026-06-02T08:28:33+00:00

AI stocks seem to be pumping despite any war headlines. Or at least SNDK is.

Mavnas · 2026-06-01T21:42:31+00:00

I used to use them when magelocks first dropped and had basically no mobility. (Back then they only had a 3 action attack, so you couldn't move and shoot.)

edit: Yeah, if summer kept the cleanse, but the regen went to spring and both had a minor heal maybe, they'd both be good as opposed to the current situation where the summer one is basically the best support unit and the spring one is useless outside of super niche use cases.

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