Question about characters and bodyguards

[Monkwarrior]

This question may seem quite strange, but it is the consequence of the non-standard campaign that I'm trying to develop:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=189280

In fact, my two factions (spain and moors) have not a real family tree (coded in descr_sm_factions).
In such case I put the faction leader and several named characters, not related by family links to the leader.

At the beginning of the first turn, the game automatically assigns a faction heir, with the trair "apparent heir" (or something like that). How is he chosen? Of course the game makes a wrong choice, as my preferences are different.

In some cases, when the characters are not noblemen (counts, etc) but bishops, or simply rich men, I put no real bodyguard units (general_unit as attibute in EDU), but a list of units with the best cavalry in the first place of the list. However, sometimes the game assigns the bodyguard unit to a different unit, in one case to almughavars and in other case to crusade sergeants. In other cases I solved this problem by giving the first unit in the list 2 exp points, but in these two cases this method did not solve the problem. How can I say the game that one particular unit must be considered as bodyguard of the named character?

[Caesar Clivus]

There is an attribute "general_unit" that you can assign in the EDU.

As for the heir, try giving the general you want as the heir the faction heir trait when you define him in the descr_strat file.

[Azim]

As for the heir, try giving the general you want as the heir the faction heir trait when you define him in the descr_strat file.

That doesn't work; heirs are hard coded. The faction heir trait is the result of a character being named faction heir, not the other way around.