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Thanks. Lenny or Rene as Aniplex translated the name is probably my favorite character in this story.
She starts as this pure magus who did the correct thing as a magus and jumped ship from the Abbey which was going through a tough power struggle to the Scladio family for the sake of advancing her research. But this new setting for her isn't a magecraft organization no matter how much it tries to be. For the sake of her magecraft she was ironically required to take in this poisonous culture foreign to what she knew and the result is that she degenerated as a magus. She sacrificed her former self as a magus for the sake of her magecraft to the point where she believed she could and should prove herself as magus. However, she didn't degenerate enough to, I guess what we would say, sincerely appreciate her relationships for what they were.
In essence, she understood all the lore, what it meant, and how to use it. That would have been great for her if she had kept it self-contained, a mystery. But she joined the grail war because she, very humanly, thought she could do better. However she had no idea her mere presence would emotionally activate anyone.
And that's what killed her.