Talk:Act 17 - The Saint's Gospel/@comment-46470744-20200818132359/@comment-44330163-20200818143938

In the WN before going back to the Yagumo region Rio renovated the bathrooms of his two houses, the mansion on Galarc just after receiving it,  when he was done with that he escorted Celia, Christina and Flora back to Rodania and stayed there two weeks renovatiing his house there. So maybe he will do the same on the LN, François already told him the moment he gave him the mansion to feel free of making whatever renovation if he felt like it. Because renovating a mansion is something pretty normal for nobles, they add rooms, they remove them, they change furniture, decorations, bath equipment, they add basements, cellars... for nobles spending on appearance is a must, not something they will consider unproper to do.

Besides, of course the nobles will use the wood for the decorations on their houses, furniture, stairs, handrails, doors, chairs, tables,picture frames... it won't be a cheap wood, it would be wood full of decorations with gold and silver, full of complicated engravings, with a lot of treatments like resins or varnishes for making it look better but still wood, try to search for baroque furniture on google and you will see a lot of examples. Of coure the windows will be made of wood too, rather there isn't any other possible material for a window but wood, try looking for pictures of baroque buildings too, the windows on the outside are framed inside decorations made of stone carved on complicated ways but the window doors by example will still be made of wood and glass, because you know, they used to like to be able of opening their windows if they wanted to, something that with a window made of stone is at least difficult. They have decorations made of stone too like statues, carvings on their outside walls, gargoyles and the like, but they don't use only stone, the nobility is certainly an outdated thing but they aren't the flintstones either, with the exception of castles and fortresses they can't have everything made of stone, the outside walls is one thing but the walls inside the house of course will be made of wood or bricks covered with plaster later.

Also, Rio certainly puts effort on not picking the attention of other nobles, but it has nothing to do with fear of them, he just thinks that the troubles that involve other nobles are always troublesome to solve, even more for someone who doesn't posses enough authority like him, so he prefers to avoid them as much as possible, but if he has to retaliate he will do it, also right now picking a fight with Rio means picking a fight with François and Liselotte's father, who are the two most powefull men inside the Galarc kingdom at the moment, making Rio their enemy right now is suicidal in several ways.