Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140806122913/@comment-6192846-20140830174633

Well.... I had 20 pages worth of info translated. Had. Power surge ruined that and I will now make sure to c/p these extensive write ups to word documents like I usually do so this doesn't happen again</strike. Anyhow, I'll summarize what I can remember again:


 * Hanne's on her way to Calgaround at the beginning of the novel (by carriage); she intends to write an article on the town, particularly on the Flower of the Plateau. She's interviewing the mayor, Julia.


 * Freesis Foundation created the world's first newspaper.


 * Yukina's memoirs detail her travels there which seem to be the origins of her story she wrote about 70s years ago. Kyle's mentioned in them as well.


 * The town used to be a vacation place for the royal family up til a hundred years ago; after that period, there was a reform and governance was transferred to elected mayors instead of aristocracy.


 * The people of Calgaround seem to worship "our lady", and there's a portrait of the virgin mother of the twin gods, Meta there. This seems to be due to her association with the Plateau when it was still a territory of the Magic Kingdom and the headquarters of Apocalypse.


 * Theories about Meta (I am not sure the specifics yet), are denied by the Levia sect faith in Levin and those that aren't following their doctrine on this are heavily oppressed.


 * This effectively makes them "heretics" but Hanne's not getting wrapped up in a religious conflict. Her focus is on her interview with Julia.


 * When they finally get around to talking about the Flower of the Plateau, Mikulia's story comes to light.


 * She was an outsider but was loved by the people, named the "Flower of the Plateau" in reference to the Greeonian Plateau Roses that were also very beautiful.


 * A record written during King Sohni (Thorny?) Elphen's time by Hermann Belz lists the civilians of the town; Mikulia's husband had been Gilbert Calgaround, born in 118 and dead in 151. He died of an unknown disease.


 * It was said that two people came to town. One was a man saying Mikulia was a "lustful woman" and the other was a boy claiming to ber her son. They disappeared shortly after they came to town.


 * Sometime after Mikulia's death, two bodies were found in a well (I believe the mansion's well) and rumors of these unidentifiable corpses being those two spread. Mikulia's also sometimes believed to have killed her husband too but there's no apparent motive.


 * Mikulia's birth and death dates are listed as unknown.


 * Julia drinks milk.


 * The rose's root is famed as being very medicinal; shamans of old (they aren't around anymore) were said to be able to refine it into a powerful medicine. However, this "Gift" as the shamans called it was "too effective" and effectively made it a poison instead of a sleeping drug.


 * Mikulia might've known of the shamans and so Gift was made for her to kill her husband (and possibly her other victims) but it's impossible to know now.


 * Julia remembers that the estate was built on the old royal lands and that there was an old royal library that has a portrait of Gilbert and Mikulia (this is where I had the power outage), illustrated by Gumina Glassred (as the prime minister) while visiting the land.

I'll go through this again to get a bit more of the chronology and back and forth of Hanne and Julia. I also am not sure yet if this is Julia's home or somewhere else. If Gatto was pretending to be the librarian, I'll be able to check the next scene to confirm it.