Chapter 85: Marriage Proposal (1)
The original purpose of debuting in high society was to foster cultural, artistic, and magical exchanges with people of high standing, as well as to cultivate and refine oneself.
However, those were just surface-level reasons. The real reason young ladies gathered in one place to showcase their beauty and manners was, in many cases, to secure a good marriage proposal.
Especially for lesser nobles or those of ambiguous status, the sole intent was to catch a good noble and achieve social elevation.
Such people focused more on attending dances and banquets to mingle with nobles than on debating philosophical speeches or advancing their magical prowess in cultural centers.
If they managed to catch the attention of a man from a ducal family and marry him, it meant a total life change, so families often pushed their daughters in various ways. That was, essentially, the logic of social circles.
Between high-ranking territorial nobles and lesser nobles, there existed an unbridgeable gap.
There were almost no marriage proposals between the two levels, so the eyes of powerful nobles naturally turned to the top of Ebelstein’s social circle, rather than to lesser noblewomen obsessed with marriage.
Those at the top were clearly defined.
They were Aiselin of Duplain, Ellen of Belmierd, and Denise of Beltus.