In the end, you settled upon Ludwig von Adlershorst, a distant nephew of yours who lives in a castle in the centre of Tautenland. He has been successfully educated in the classical seven liberal arts. The septem artes liberales , whereas Sophia has completed her studies in the artes incertae , the uncertain arts, a semi-antiquated term for the study of magic.

You had sent for him immediately, and he came to Rittersbach in the summer. At first, you didn't really know what to make of this boy; he wasn't like you or your father. He was of a slight, narrow build, with little muscle from what you could see. His hair was darker than that of yours, as were his eyes, but he was still undoubtedly an Adlershorst.

He, by contrast, seemed to be in awe of you, the second royal Adlershorst. While they didn't immediately take a liking to each other, he did seem to get Sophia to like him by holding an impromptu lecture about the virtues of the ancient Mithradian philosophical schools of stoicism and cynicism, with some modern scholasticism thrown in here and there. Now, you weren't stupid; you had received your own informal education in the classics while in Mithras, but you did feel that whatever he was talking about reached the upper limit of what you were able to understand.

They were thus formally wed in a finished chapel of the great building pit, a nickname the Rittersbachers had given to their cathedral. The couple was thus formally wed, and you moved them into the old apartments of the Albrechtburg, both to give your mother some more company and so you didn't have to waste time and money building a new wizard's tower.

Why do they live in towers anyway?