Talk:Amalie Mainbach/@comment-49.144.234.119-20200620080238/@comment-45880342-20200620151127

Not really the same, though. She isn't actually a blood relative of the Baumeister family at all, and the marriage with Kurt is more about the fact that the wife of a noble should presumably also come from the family of a noble, so as to preserve the appearance of a noble's prestige, rather than being about protecting any lineage and wealth. Her getting with Wendelin afterward was not expected; she wasn't actually supposed to become his mistress according to the expectations of the role as a sex-teacher. However, in novel 12 it is revealed that the public knows about her current status as his mistress, and treats her as the "spoils of war" for Wend having defeated Kurt rather than as anything more formal (they also know about and consider Therese to be a similar spoil of war, even though at the end of novel 12 she hasn't actually become a mistress yet).