Did someone steal the necromancer ring form the Water Spirit already?What? Nah. Clearly Josette.
Nah you got things mixed up. They were betrothed when she was 10 and married when she was twelve. See chapter 36:
I assume the mission to pacify the county took a few months. Then there was the one year time skip. After that was the vacation to Albion and then this inquisition which I assume took several more months. Combined with the time Henry had to have spent at the palace then at least 2-3 years have occurred since the marriage.Chapter 36 said:
Which is a major dick move considering Charles wasn't planning to steal the throne before this. Henry has secured Joseph's immediate ascension to King with this move, but he may also have turned Charles from passive enemy of circumstance into an active nemesis. Which is bad since Charles is a magical prodigy and likely still more popular than Douche-seph even with his supporters stripped of power. There's all kinds of fuckery he can do to mess with Joseph's regime without seizing power.
The figurine was sealed with the letter. Anyone who opened that and saw the 'evidence' Henry brought back to prove Josette was dead should be able to figure out what happened.
Quite possibly. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Charles turned out to be a good mage, nice guy, but terrible administrator and ruler. Those are completely different skillsets, and hell, being too much of a nice guy is actually quite a negative characteristic in a monarch, at least given the society they live in.
Why would Charles be an active enemy? From what Charles can see, the entire situation is his own fault. He was the one who kept his daughter alive in a convent, both disobeying Gallian law and failing to protect and care for her as a father should. He also couldn't control his own supporters, one of whom kidnapped his daughter and got her and himself killed.
Joseph and Henry just spun his personal tragedy into a months-long slander campaign and very purposefully destroyed his power base. Heck yeah, Charles has reason to feel negatively towards them. Not to mention dear Jojo proved he had a few screws loose. There is little to no reason for Charles to want to cooperate with King Joseph's regime. I don't think he'd be trying to murder them yet, but he could definitely throw a wrench in the gears of bureaucracy. 'Losing' important documents, projects losing track of funds, diplomatic incidents... hey, Joseph did it first!
no, because if all this came to light, Henry and Joseph still have the girl as a hostage.
Alright fair point, its not slander if the things they say about him are all true. Henry still however went out of his way to destroy all of Charles' supporters as they 'searched' for Josette... and 'lo and behold, after months of no results (and the pro-Charles nobles have all been subdued), she turns up dead! That inquisition was not subtle, if Charles has any social life at all he should have noticed Henry was targeting his allies as he 'searched'.
Note, this is sarcasm by the way.
If the nobles we've seen Henry whale on so far are representative of the average Charles supporter, in all honestly both Charles and Joseph look to be SHIT rulers. Is Isabella the only one in that family who bothers looking at the numbers?
Which is a major dick move considering Charles wasn't planning to steal the throne before this. Henry has secured Joseph's immediate ascension to King with this move, but he may also have turned Charles from passive enemy of circumstance into an active nemesis. Which is bad since Charles is a magical prodigy and likely still more popular than Douche-seph even with his supporters stripped of power. There's all kinds of fuckery he can do to mess with Joseph's regime without seizing power.
The figurine was sealed with the letter. Anyone who opened that and saw the 'evidence' Henry brought back to prove Josette was dead should be able to figure out what happened.
Not true at all, did you even read the story or do you skim it? Everyone and everywhere was searched. Henry simply made a point of gathering dirt on everybody and shared it with his wife.
"What are you doing?!"
