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Today we're going to talk about inheritance law and the supporters of heirs.
In this game, inheritance is not only determined by laws such as primogeniture law, youngest inheritance law, electoral inheritance law, etc.
Everyone has a favorite child. I like the second child. He's a genius. Does the law mean the first child has to inherit?
Can't I just be tough and let the middle brother inherit?
Yes, we do! Of course you can!
Legal succession Law and designation of heirs
Inheritance in the game will distinguish between legal inheritance and designated inheritance.
Legal succession: The law of succession determines who inherits your titles and lands. Most vassals may be inclined to this, especially the old school lords! They follow the inheritance laws more closely.
Designated succession: This is not designated succession law, this is your preferred child. You designate one of your preferred children to inherit the title upon your death, also to play a role after your death.
When the designated succession and the legal succession are the same person, then everything is fine, which is what everyone wants to see, which greatly reduces the probability of succession wars.
On the other hand, if the designated heir and the legal heir are not the same person, then the probability of succession war will be very high.
Supporter
Each heir would have their supporters, either vassals or other foreign lords. In the event of a war of succession, these supporters would send knights to support the successor's claim to his possession. This probability exists even if the law and the designated heir are one person, unless you have only one child, as long as you have many children, then he is likely to be supported by others and increase the probability of succession wars, especially if these children have their own territory, it will increase the probability of them fighting for succession.
All supporters will be displayed on the left side of the screen, they will show the object of support, the legal heir will be represented by the gold crown, the designated heir will be represented by the silver crown, the rest of the heirs will be represented by a number, this number is not their line of succession, just a code!
Each heir candidate also shows how many lords currently support him!
Ignore the historical nature of the succession candidates in order to demonstrate randomly generated characters.
As you can see here, William currently has four sons who are all randomly generated
It is now the law of primogeniture, so the 13-year-old eldest son Robert is naturally the legal heir, and in the absence of a designated heir, the player will play as Robert once he dies.
However, it can be seen that each of the four sons has a different vassal supporting them, so there is a 30% chance that a succession war will break out. At the same time, in the supporters, you can see that each person's support tag corresponds to the candidate's number, and they will be arranged together.
For a variety of reasons, I have a penchant for penis! A genius, will become a great tool in the future, I also find God opened the light! It was my dream at night, so I insisted that the second brother should inherit, which led to the difference between the legal heir and the heir I liked, plus the vassals have their own supporters, the probability of succession wars increased, and the second brother has my support which makes him the support of seven lords.
In order to reduce the probability of succession war, I have decided to enlist the Overlord to support my decision. I decided to promise him a fiefdom, to owe him a favour, in the hope that he would be replaced by the favoured heir. As you can see, the Earl of Lancaster has agreed, and the lords he supports have changed. But the probability of succession wars did not decrease because the supporting lords were too spread out. So we have to keep the overlord on our side.
This time I have decided to enlist the Holy Roman Emperor to support my heir! Also promised a piece of land and owed him a favor, hoping for his support.
With the support of the Holy Roman Emperor, my heir has one more vote, and the odds of a succession war are reduced in the face of great power.
In order to avoid the succession war as much as possible, and also to demonstrate the crazy debt, the Lord will all support their second son! But the old lords couldn't get through, because they were very compliant with the inheritance laws.
In order to smooth the succession of my second son, I have enlisted the King of Scotland, the Duke of Aquitaine. Having reduced the odds of a succession war to 15%, all my vassals now supported my decision except a few old-school stalwarts and my eldest son, Robert himself. I owe a lot of favors and fiefdoms for it!
To sum up, switching to a designated succession law can more effectively reduce the probability of succession wars, and the old guard will no longer oppose you!