Ahaha omg I didn’t even catch that part, that the maid was checking out Ryoka as part of her character as the old guy.
Unless the maid is actually into boobs? Queer spy/maid representation?

Those are a lot of assumptions that are really just what could happen, that wand could have also saved their lives innumerable times, we wouldn’t know. It is arrogant in my opinion to make that decision for them when they fought for that with their lives. And when they conveniently get 4 sets of the exact equipment they need aren’t they gonna be suspicious that it wasn’t the item found in the bag lol. And if they 3ver find out eventually that’s honestly friendship ruining, lying like that. It mainly assumes they are complete idiots.

I would normally agree, but in this case she’s entirely right on her decision.

The wand would likely tear the team apart. Both Ceria and Pisces would fight for something that strong, even if neither of them really needs a wand. Something that strong would elevate all of their spells by 1-2 tiers at least, which would be huge.

It would also likely get either the entire team killed, or if the team broke up, then whoever got the wand would end up dead. As soon as any info got out about said wand, they’d have virtually every mage gunning for them to try and take it. Something that valuable would be worth possibly getting in trouble by murdering them for it – not to mention if any Bandits or Thieves or the like had skills to detect something that valuable. None of them are yet at gold rank levels of power, so they’d be easy prey.

Yes, making that decision for them without their knowledge is a dick move. But it’s a smart dick move made in their best interests.

Erin is hardly likeable once you start looking at her from a general standpoint. She is generally friendly. But that’s about her best positive trait. Irresponsible, slow on the uptake, and generally annoying in any non-peaceful situation. She is both accepting and heartless at the same time. Not heartless as in she doesn’t care, but heartless as in refusing to understand another person’s circumstances due to inherent bias. Ryoka is generally an asshole, but I think we can all agree that she does shit properly and carefully. And unlike Erin, she will listen and process things properly. Erin will literally ignore things she doesn’t want to hear unless she is directly confronted about it. She’s not a naturally bad person, but she has some pretty horrific traits. Ryoka had anger issues, but she’s basically gotten over it now. Truly resolved it. Erin has yet to fix her own issues.

Who is she to decide on the treasures of others??
This entitlement of the characters really icks me through out the series.
The author must be a white borderline karen.

Meh hard disagree. Half the time ryoka is just a plot device to bring knowledge from our world and the other half she’s just annoying.

Yeah! Yggdrasil ark when?

“I can’t tell you how to make anything too useful. Steam engines, light bulbs…not exactly stuff your village needs… .”

Every village since the Agricultural Revolution has needed mills, nearly all of which used huge massive wheels until the Industrial Revolution provided a better use for those wheels once they had a better power source than the nearest river or a team of oxen (or Samson, but most countries do not have a few thousand of those lying around anywhere.) That is to say, steam engines are immediately and incredibly useful; just because the Greeks who discovered them were so conditioned to slave labor that the thought never occurred to them does not mean they COULD not have any time they liked.

Light bulbs, meh; the big thing is that knowing about steam engines AND electromagnetism means you can use a MAGNETIC wheel surrounded by a coil of wire to TRANSMIT that spin to ANOTHER magnetic wheel — or thousands, over thousands of miles of distance. Then you suddenly discover that there are a LOT of things a big heavy flywheel can do as long as there is an outlet available to send electricity up its cord through a plug in the wall.

This is actually one of the easiest AND busiest gets; the biggest issue is that really huge boilers require really well-forged alloys to prevent explosive decompression, but that is more an issue of how much electricity is generated, and wind turbines are also easily and simply made IF one knows how. And let us be clear:

Medieval societies have all or most of the pieces because at least one ANCIENT culture did: Steam, electromagnetism, gears, Earths size and shape; even atomic theory. What they critically lacked that even the dullest modern human has is 1) any concept of how any of it worked or what it was and 2) incentive to develop either. The culmination of Golden Age Greek science and other philosophy was the protege of Socrates’ protege, Aristotle, who, ironically, pursued the Ideal of things and declared the highest knowledge to be impractical knowledge precisely because it is not subordinate to nor motivated by some greater need, but an end in itself. Had they possessed a bit more Roman pragmatism (or the broader view of citizenship and civilization Rome gained only of necessity near its end) they might have walked on the Moon ere Romes Republic ever existed. And so might any group of modern humans placed in that world, provided they survived long enough to set to work changing their new world.