Risou no Himo Seikatsu - Vol. 18 Ch. 74 - A Sovereign's Choice

[BKNY_STEVE]

Folks, let's face facts: Lucrezia is the only real option available.

First off, Aura wants bestowal magic for the Capua kingdom. Zenjirou has bestowal magic in his genetics, but to maximize the chances of him fathering a child with bestowal magic capabilities, he needs to get a concubine from the Sharowa bloodline.

That automatically rules out any of the women from the four dukedoms. There's no chance there's been any intermingling of either the Sharowa or the Jilibel bloodlines, because the political balance of the Twin Kingdoms rests on the dependence of the dukedoms on the royal families.

The only available women we know of that have Sharowa genetics are Lucrezia and Bona.

Bona clearly has bestowal magic (I assume she's from one of the, and she uses it constantly to create magical artifacts. She's fulfilled and busy. Yeah, she and Zenjirou like each other, but not in that kinda way.

On the other hand Lucrezia is born of the Sharowa, but because she hasn't developed bestowal magic, she's been demoted from the royal family. But if she marries another royal, she'd be reinstated as a Sharowa, which she clearly wants more than anything.

She has the genetics Aura wants---her sister Margaret is an accomplished bestowal magic user---and she's got a burning desire to become Zenjirou's concubine, because that'll restore her world.

 

[JJTheWeeb]

The space isolating barrier is only locked relative to the magician's imagination. Those people are still on a planet with a day-night cycle and presumably seasons. It's a different universe, so who knows, but we might assume their star system is still a part of a galaxy. So, they are moving nonetheless, very fast, through space. Unless it's an extremely different universe where the planet is totally static, the sun orbits the planet, and so forth, but that seems like a stretch. The pondering here is locking it relative to the planet's surface, but not above that level (in scale). But why is that so? Why can't he lock it relative to the ship. So, it can't be moved on the ship's deck, but it will move with the ship.

could be relative to the mana in the air, which presumably moves with the planet. Would also kinda be "self-perpetuating" in that sense because of it locking to itself in some sense.

magic is funny in that we now gotta ponder "is mana a wave, particle, or something else?"

also note magic has chants which also implies something (spirits it might've been? i forget) with a concious executing the spells

 

[Psychronia]

Gotta love a story that allows you to enjoy a full chapter of just talking.

If I had the choice, I'd go with Princess Bona. She and Zenjiro vibe well but not in a way that would cause trouble in paradise. We also know that she has magic while Lucrezia has issues with it.

 

[AnonymousContributor]

I’m surprised they have not talked about having a teleportation tool for offensive use.
Imagine having it set up to go to deep underground or under the sea, or more peacefully, inside a jail cell, the tool then can be “armed” and then thrown, after a few seconds, it will then take everything inside its radius away, just like a grenade.

I’m sure that would be very hard to make, but also be very powerful and scary.

or blowing up enemy capitals

 

[frogxdor]

I know they already flew over this line ages ago, but this lady is getting more and more gung-ho about whoring out her husband for political gain, isn't she? She's not even reluctant about it anymore.

 

[spauldo]

For all we know, the Big Bang could have been moving in absolute space, so we can't even average out or otherwise calculate all galaxies for that.

That's a common misconception based on early versions of big bang theory and a lack of good science communication. People think "big bang" and they usually think everything was compressed into a tiny ball that just exploded.

But the big bang wasn't a point in space. It happened everywhere. All the space in the universe (which could be infinite as far as we know) had insane amounts of energy. Then space expanded for some reason (this part is called inflation), diluting all that energy away. The energy recovered when space stopped inflating (this part is called reheating) caused space to fill with energy again, which condensed into matter and dark matter.

That's why there's no "center" of the universe, and why every part of space looks like pretty much every other part of space.

If that sounds interesting, there's a YouTube channel named "Sixty Symbols" that has really good information on this. Look for videos with Prof. Ed Copeland - his specialty is Big Bang Cosmology and he does a good job of explaining it.

 

[AnotherDuck]

But the big bang wasn't a point in space.

That's not what I'm referring to, but a volume from where the universe started expanding, and the location of that volume. If something is expanding, you can extrapolate backwards to the centre of the expansion.

 

[spauldo]

That's not what I'm referring to, but a volume from where the universe started expanding, and the location of that volume. If something is expanding, you can extrapolate backwards to the centre of the expansion.

I don't believe it works quite like that when space itself is the thing that's expanding. Every point in space looks like the center of the universe. All the matter and energy we see coalesced after inflation, so even if there were some kind of momentum involved with the contents of our region of space before inflation, those contents were diluted away to effectively nothing so there's nothing from the big bang to be "relative" to. Whatever was adjacent to us during the big bang isn't causally linked with us any more.

I'm not aware of any current theory that supports the idea of an "absolute" location or velocity, but I'm prepared to be corrected.

 

[AnotherDuck]

I'm not aware of any current theory that supports the idea of an "absolute" location or velocity, but I'm prepared to be corrected.

My point is that that is an unknowable unknown. We can't know it, even theoretically, unless we have frame of reference. Which we don't. Even if we somehow could calculate any absolute point in the universe (which doesn't have to be the centre, so it doesn't matter if one exists), we can't know whether that point would be moving.