Who the hell thinks knocking people (including a small child) unconscious and kidnapping them can be excused with "it's a prank"? And why the hell would they jump to kidnapping in the first place?
There's also Matthias, Laurenz and Muriella.
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There's 20 duchies, not 27.
The reason Ehrenfest isn't at the bottom right now is the civil war. Below them are 6 losing duchies and 1 neutral lesser duchy.
IIRC, another euphemism that was used with that other character was "distanced". Which meant... what? That he'd been fired? Just ordered to be elsewhere when dealing with Myne? It also took a while for the shoe to drop.