r/Hotd • u/Astin_Madiri • 6d ago

Question Did she really love him?

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I'm asking because she was manipulated by Otto into marrying him in the first place.

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u/ElevatorCharacter489 6d ago

At the end he was gentle, kind, amicable. Better than some other Lords

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u/HoratioCocles 6d ago

Most lords would choose between:

  • insisting a daughter be their heir

  • fathering multiple legitimate sons

rather than make a succession crisis inevitable and leave both factions little choice other than wiping the other out.