House Roscente

The House Roscente is one of the noble houses of The Villainess Turns The Hourglass. It is one of the wealthiest and most influential noble houses in the series and, as such, plays a major role in the politics of the Empire. Being the house of Aria Roscente and Mielle Roscente, the relationships between the family’s members also form a central component of the story’s plot, and its property forms much of the scenery.

About
Count Roscente is an extremely wealthy individual even by noble standards, being the owner of many large businesses and reaping immense profits each and every year; it is unknown whether the immense wealth of the family was acquired through inheritance, business ventures of the current Count, or both. At some point, he married the Former Countess Roscente, who died soon after giving birth to her second child, Mielle. More than a decade later, the Count remarried, bringing Carin and Aria into his family.

The Count’s business is, however, weakened following the monopolization of luxury goods by Lane Pinonua, the Count’s sudden inability to continue leading the business due to his disability, and especially the excessive cost of sustaining the Croan soldiers. As the house is stripped of its noble title and expropriated, Carin manages to acquire some of the remaining wealth by acquiring property under her name and divorcing the Count; the Count is left alone in the mansion with a single servant (with the others accompanying Carin into her new mansion). As a result of their involvement in the conspiracy against the Imperial family, the remaining members of the Roscente family – Mielle and Cain – are sentenced to 50 years of custody and lifetime servitude at the Imperial Castle, respectively. After being tricked into killing Cain by poisoning his tea, Mielle is executed; after her execution, it is revealed that the former Count committed suicide. This marks the end of all known members of the Roscente family.