Glossary was bit superficial, because it's not only the names and surface level details that seem to have affected this manga.
"Aino" is a character in Kalevala who is promised as a wife to old sage Väinömöinen by his brother, Joukahainen, who lost a spell singing contest to him earlier.
However, Aino does not want to get married to such ancient man, so she eventually ends up drowning herself in a lake instead. There's also another source poem for Kalevala where a maiden instead hangs herself.
This could be seen as a fated death, as even a man as powerful as Väinömöinen was not able to stop this from occurring, giving a bit of a parallel here with the mage knowing her beloved will inevitably die and it seems there's nothing she can do about it. However, very last part of that sequence shows that Aino has changed into a fish instead of drowning and so manages to escape her predicament. So it's not all so dark. I'm getting a feeling this story might do something similar in the end.
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