I don’t get why Eglantine needs feystones. Just offering mana in an earnest prayer should be enough for the magic circle to activate. The feystones are just a workaround for those who lack the knowledge, mana capacity or faith to do so, and I don’t think that any of those three aplies to Eglantine. She does after all have the divine protection of all seven primary gods, plus whatever subordinate gods she got from re-doing the ritual.
Speaking of mana… how did Schwartz and Weiss notice Rozemyne’s presence, if she was so completely covered in silver cloth from head to toe, not even leaving a gap for her to see through? Shouldn’t that block her mana completely and thus leave the magic tools blind to her?
But you don’t need a conductor for mana to go into a magic circle you’re standing on. In the spring prayer ritual in Haldenzell, they had their regular shoes on, and the mana still went into the stage without any problem, with such efficiency that it made the laynobles pass out. I can’t imagine that the very circle meant to test Zent candidates would be inferior in design to one used for prayers in a duchy.
Furthermore when Rozemyne watched her first graduation whirl from the stands, she and Ferdinand saw the magic circle activate too (albeit it wasn’t visible to non-Zent candidates), even though none of the dancers was wearing feystone shoes or offering mana in their prayer song.
The feystones are not a necesity, but a crutch, to make things easier for those who don’t want to or can’t offer mana in an earnest prayer, while whirling. Rozemyne even deliberately avoided praying, during whirling lessons, so she wouldn’t accidentally activate the circle.
I don’t get why Eglantine needs feystones. Just offering mana in an earnest prayer should be enough for the magic circle to activate. The feystones are just a workaround for those who lack the knowledge, mana capacity or faith to do so, and I don’t think that any of those three aplies to Eglantine. She does after all have the divine protection of all seven primary gods, plus whatever subordinate gods she got from re-doing the ritual.
Speaking of mana… how did Schwartz and Weiss notice Rozemyne’s presence, if she was so completely covered in silver cloth from head to toe, not even leaving a gap for her to see through? Shouldn’t that block her mana completely and thus leave the magic tools blind to her?
She needs feystone boots to act as a conductor for mana to fill the circle.
But you don’t need a conductor for mana to go into a magic circle you’re standing on. In the spring prayer ritual in Haldenzell, they had their regular shoes on, and the mana still went into the stage without any problem, with such efficiency that it made the laynobles pass out. I can’t imagine that the very circle meant to test Zent candidates would be inferior in design to one used for prayers in a duchy. Furthermore when Rozemyne watched her first graduation whirl from the stands, she and Ferdinand saw the magic circle activate too (albeit it wasn’t visible to non-Zent candidates), even though none of the dancers was wearing feystone shoes or offering mana in their prayer song.
The feystones are not a necesity, but a crutch, to make things easier for those who don’t want to or can’t offer mana in an earnest prayer, while whirling. Rozemyne even deliberately avoided praying, during whirling lessons, so she wouldn’t accidentally activate the circle.