#take a pithy officer desk job straight out of school so off to the toilet scrubbing division he goes until he works his way up

[mathlann]

Inasmuch as the "Werserians eventually rose to become just as rich and idle as any other noble house after Abelard passed" is kind of a good ending dynastic establishment-wise, I think Cas would be personally deeply distressed at that outcome for them. The "I'm a noble because my great-great-great-great-grandfather held Saint Drusus' third cousin's grox's toilet paper once"-style hereditary nobility isn't a thing on her homeworld (you actually have to be competent at something) so she genuinely liked that Abelard had like, actual job experience that he got ennobled for. I don't think she'd ever demote the family in her lifetime, out of affection for Abelard alone, but I do think she'd try her hardest to subtly-not-so-subtly bar any Werserian scions from any of the cushy jobs until they hit their 60s at least.