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A "cathedral" is just a structure that contains the "cathedra" (episcopal throne) of the diocese's bishop. There are plenty of examples of cathedrals that are quite unimposing and plain, which are still regarded as cathedrals since they nevertheless contain the *cathedra* of the bishop. That is likewise the case in this anime. There can only be one cathedral in the archduchy (the seat of the High Bishop of the archduchy of Ehrenfest), which is in the capital city of Ehrenfest. The structure that Sylvester built here in Hasse, they specifically called a monastery rather than a cathedral.

>They got that monastery built but that was the easy part. The hard part’s gonna be wrangling funds from the nobles for the workshop. My impression was that Sylvester spent Rosemyne's funds on the monastery rather than providing his own specifically to force her into learning the politics of fundraising among nobles. If so, he's one crafty Archduke. Also, the sheer hilarity of having his (officially) 7 year old adoptive daughter personally fund a new monastery and industry in a new town, and then making her fundraise for the rest. And then when she asks if she can help out one of her knights, he tells her to create a new fashion trend. Sylvester strikes me as one of those bosses where it's dangerous to show too much competence.

Pizza is amazing. However historically it's mostly a lower-class food (at least originally). Not only because tomatoes (new to Italy after trade to the Americas) are in the nightshade family and thus viewed as potentially poisonous, but it wasn't uncommon for pizzas to be either a sweeter, street food for your hands, or heavier on (especially cheap) veggies, especially for the poor. It was really only the Americans who cheesed it up and went heavier on the meat, and pioneered non-wood fired varieties, especially as the invention of the gas oven coincided nicely with GI's returning from Italy after WW2 providing a larger, eager customer base beyond Italian-Americans. The upshot of this is that pizza is highly unlikely to be a dish for the nobility (even if they weren't suspicious of the tomato-equivalents, it's still a finger food). Also, without gas ovens, it's hard to make larger pizzas consistently at scale. Most importantly, obviously (modern) pizza is highly dependent on the taste and economics of the cheese used. And, well, tomatoes, which I gather don't actually exist in this world (they had to find a substitute). Tomatoes are pretty unique in taste: it's a rare food that has all of a moderate acidity, natural sugars, and umami taste (with aromatic compounds to boot). Let me put it this way: substitutes for tomatoes in recipes is flat out impossible, at least with a single ingredient. Closest you get is like, tomatillos or red peppers or something. Or, most likely, you 'build' the flavor profile with other things, which is going to take a lot of experimentation and at least 3 ingredients.

> Building a monastery just like that really shows how powerful magic is in this world. It makes me wonder if we are only scratching the surface. And we should never forget how brutally the nobles control access to magic. They go so far as to lie and claim commoners are unable to use magic while letting those that do have the gift die off as children. Or in Freida's case, sell their bodies to nobles in exchange for the mana-leeching equipment to keep them alive. Don't forget that. Freida is only alive because she agreed to be a brood mare for some noble. Otherwise, both she and Myne would have died out due to the "mana sickness" that nobles pretend commoners can't even get. All while ensuring that the equipment to treat said mana sickness maintains it's ludicrously inflated price. Again, to ensure that commoners with magic die before ever realizing their gift unless they manage to sell themselves to the nobility. Such as in Freida's case, enter into exploitative contracts just to survive. IIRC, she agreed to be a concubine in the hopes of giving that noble's family more magic-strong offspring. On a similar note, Myne was only allowed to survive by making herself useful to the nobles. For Myne, it was powering the relics in the cathedral. And that was only allowed because a bloody civil war recently thinned out the number of magic-strong nobles, starving the church of resources. That and someone influential like Ferdinand was there to vouch for her. Otherwise, Myne would have just died. Or, like Freida, become a broodmare popping out magically inclined kids to create more 'resources' for a noble house. Magic is powerful, and the nobles monopolize that power over a mountain of suffering, corpses, and exploitation. Hell, Ferdinand was prepared to kill Myne early on just because she wanted to spread books throughout the world. Books, literacy, and knowledge were another avenue of power that the nobles traditionally sought to monopolize. It was only when he used that mind-reading talisman to confirm Myne was just a 'harmless' geek that he thought to exploit her instead of eradicate Myne. Because again, he saw giving power (knowledge/books) to the commoners as a threat to the nobility's domination over the common folk. Do not forget that. This entire world is built on exploitation and control. Myne is simply lucky that she is both useful enough to be exploited by the powers that be while also being considered non-threatening to the status quo. All while she had the fortune to be discovered by the more benign members of the nobility that let her negotiate better treatment for her services. If she was not useful, she would have just died like so many other children. If she was not cooperative, she would have been killed. Think about how badly Myne's parents reacted to her being scouted by the church. Even the most basic of commoners knew that 'grey robe' was a position of slavery they'd risk Myne dying than have to suffer. She also experienced a great deal of prejudice after securing her blue robes... only to find out her parents were, if anything, under-reacting to the treatment of children in the care of the Church (locked in the dark to starve.) Never forget the people we are dealing with now. Do not forget the systems they empower, protect, and take part in.

>Though curious as to why Ferdinand would have no intention of getting married. He's a priest. He would have to let go of his priesthood if he ever wish to marry, and as of now he doesn't seem to have any candidates for it. >The whole rule of no baptized children is definetly interesting. Nobility acting strict is no surprise. Assume it's also for the childs sake. Kids that young can be easily targeted by hostile nobles, baptized kids can at least listen to reason and be ordered to evacuate if they're being jumped. Not eating in the same table is harsh, they could've just get the kids to get some practical lessons in table etiquette within the controlled environment.

Bookworm doesn't really handle cultural change the way that you see in a lot of isekai. Like she wanted to make sure that the orphans were fed but she was going by a thought process of the modern world. In this world, the compromise she came up with is that the orphan children work in order to be fed. Appalling by our standards but to them, it's just bringing the orphans to the same level of "work for your food" that basically all commoner children were already at.

It's a topic that keeps coming up, and there are many potential reasons, most can only be discussed in the source corner. But lets take todays episode as a basis: trends come from higher nobles to lower nobles, from lower nobles to the commoner chefs and from there to the rest of the city. And remember: If someone with a higher status says something is true, then its true. No matter how stupid/wrong/illegal it is. From there we can speculate if/how this relates to things that don't make sense to our world... or if there is another better reason, connected to a different thing we learned in the past, or maybe we still have to learn in the future.

It is a common trope that places with magic tend to be less inventive with non-magic things. I haven't seen or heard of any true hardships other than the orphanage. The type of hardship our world has experienced during this time period is probably very rare and temporary due to magic. If a duke could just fly somewhere and magically create a Monastery in a few minutes, then most of the causes for long term famines are probably solved pretty easily.

Magic by definition defies logic. But you did not pay enough attention to the magic itself. As the anime already shows a few limitations. First there is a significant economic cost as it requires golden dust. If you remember from the previous season, similar golden dust was created when Myne overfilled the sizeable and equally expensive feystone the High Bishop was using to protect himself against her mana. Both mana and feystones of such quality are very rare and thus expensive. Then you saw how Ferdinand had to draw precise schematics, which were based on existing schematics of the Temple. Myne would require education and practice to do the same.