haha yes, Estra was her husband's mistress...awkward....

@Frances, Even more than that, the rather Implicit meaning behind rather innocent-seeming words. The meaning has a lot more than just a "mistress" to it in the modern connotation. Not only is it treated as a trivial matter, but it's also treated as a duty to be performed at a whim. A convenience rather than even a pleasure. Even in other historical media (the Marco Polo series for example) it wasn't treated in quite the same way as here.

@Heminor, Or am I perhaps reading a bit too much into it? I'm just not very used to the writing style

@Heminor, no not at all. Her position becomes very important later on as Sidimund's mistress. Its more of an official title like a wife but lower in rank here. But only if acknowledged publicly.

@Frances,Ah I see. So the intention was more for a logical rather than emotional correlation.

@Heminor, well....maybe. Like most relationships of that kind, it's complicated. Marriage was definitely more logical than emotional, they were for money and title not love.