Talk:Kurt Baumeister/@comment-34246582-20200508014744/@comment-108.28.174.188-20200522140811

No, not really.

The Novel makes pretty clear that he always harbored strong resentment toward his other brothers, even before he was an adult, over the fact that he wasn't as good at almost anything as any of his younger brothers were -- with it mostly diminishing only as each separated in turn from risking his ascension by marrying out, disinheriting, becoming an adventurer, etc. And, even though Artur ceded much of his power over the few years while Wend was gone, the title itself was still Artur's and had not been passed down.

Further, the Novel makes clear that he was always scheming and conniving behind the scenes with some of the more powerful families in the territory for his and their benefit, and that even his relation to his wife seemed to have more to do with getting an adequate heir since he ignored her in favor of a mistress as soon as his sons were born.