Sieglinde

Sieglinde is the first wife of Aub Dunkelfelger and mother to Lestilaut and Hannelore.

Sieglinde is very sharp. She noticed that the letters in Ehrenfest books were too uniform and consistent to be handwritten and that the ink was also of a different make than what is usually used in Yurgenschmidt, from looking at only a single book that her daughter borrowed from Lady Rozemyne, and thus deduced that Ehrenfest must have invented some kind of technology that allows the creation of multiple copies of a book at the same time, before Ehrenfest even started to sell mass-produced books to other duchies, much less revealed the existence of their budding printing industry.

Sieglinde was born and raised in Dunkelfelger. She was expected to one day marry into another duchy, but due to the exceptional circumstances of the time, this ended up not happening. After the death of the previous Zent and the assassination of his chosen successor Prince Waldifried at the hands of his older brother, the Aub Dunkelfelger at the time banned all interduchy marriage to avoid the potential problems such marriages could cause with the factional divide following the event. He only intended to keep the rule in place until a new zent was crowned, but due to the uncertainty of having a king without a Grutrissheit, he kept it in place even after Trauerqual had been won the throne. By the time the rule was finally abolished again, his son and Sieglinde had already married, leading to the unusual situation of the current Aub's wife not coming from another duchy as is common among greater duchies.