#and lestilaut can get packed off to the sovereignty as eglantine’s second spouse heh heh

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was thinking about an AU where wilfried kept his big mouth shut when ortwin asked if dietlinde would be able to get the grutrissheit and adolphine was able to use that as an excuse to delay her marriage…

but THEN i thought of an even better AU where eglantine sacked up and decided to ensure anastasius’s position as future zent would be secure after their marriage. she could have leveraged her position as future queen to convince aub drewanchel to withdraw from the agreed betrothal between adolphine and the leftover prince. adolphine would have jumped on board enthusiastically. eglantine and anastasius could have offered some other kind of benefit to drewanchel to make it up to them…

then without the backing of a greater duchy, sigiswald would be at a serious disadvantage in the fight for the throne. he could have scrambled to obtain, say, hannelore? or dietelinde? but both would have strong reasons to turn him down. his only remaining pathway would have been to try to steal eglantine from anastasius. in which case, the moment he tried something, they could have used it as a position to fully take him out.

anyway, AU where adolphine never had to marry that sorry excuse for a prince and gets to become aub drewanchel :)

#ascendance of a bookworm #she can marry like eglantine’s half brother who is son of the second wife of klassenberg #as arranged by eglantine #klassenberg and drewanchel united against sigiswald would make anyone think twice about backing him #and she’d probably persuade ortwin to marry into another duchy to further cement their power block #her first choice would probably be alexandria but that’s not happening lol #he could become charlotte’s consort #or eglantine’s second spouse #sadly i still don’t see him and hannelore happening unless lestilaut loses his position as future aub #if that happened he could become hannelore’s consort #and lestilaut can get packed off to the sovereignty as eglantine’s second spouse heh heh #ascendance of a bookworm spoilers