Rules of succession

[Iapetus]

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I searched and couldn't find it.

How do the rules of succession work?

I decided to prune my family tree a bit, as there seemed to be something... wrong... with the ruling branch. (My former heir apparent died of old age before his father and without any children. After the king died, his second son (childless) became king, and thrid son (unmarried and "dangerously mad") became heir.)

So after my insane heir died while insanely invading Turkey singlhandedly , the position of heir passed to one of the king's cousins (specifically, the son of the grandson of the original faction ruler). However, the heir's father is still alive.

Simplified family tree below:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

GD Yesevlod (d) -- GD Vladimir (d) -- GD Miroslav (d) -- Volchok (d)
-- GD Shuba the Malevolent, faction leader
-- Maksim the Mad (d)
-- Ivan (d) -- Mil -- Andrei
-- Iosif the Lewd -- Prince Shchuku, faction heir.

So not only has the succession skipped Iosef and gone to his son, but (if I'm reading the tree right), Iosef had an elder brother (Ivan), so I would have thought the succession would have passed to that branch of the family.

So how/why did the succession pass this way?

[Aeratus]

Succession is solely based on the authority of the family member. Authority is only directly visible for the faction leader, but you can calculate the authority of other characters by observing the traits and ancillaries that affect authority.

Also, the authority-based succession comes into play only when the heir position is to be selected. Once a family member becomes an heir, he remains the heir until he dies or is promoted to faction leader regardless of whether his authority changes. In other words, the authority stat determines the heir of the heir.

[Vampiresbane]

Succession is solely based on the authority of the family member. Authority is only directly visible for the faction leader, but you can calculate the authority of other characters by observing the traits and ancillaries that affect authority.

Also, the authority-based succession comes into play only when the heir position is to be selected. Once a family member becomes an heir, he remains the heir until he dies or is promoted to faction leader regardless of whether his authority changes. In other words, the authority stat determines the heir of the heir.

You learn something new everyday. Been playing this game for YEARS and never knew how heirs were selected.

[Janisssary]

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[King William the Conqueror]

Missile,missile and again missile specialy mounted ones are good

Lol. I think you replied to the wrong thread.

Succession is solely based on the authority of the family member. Authority is only directly visible for the faction leader, but you can calculate the authority of other characters by observing the traits and ancillaries that affect authority.

Also, the authority-based succession comes into play only when the heir position is to be selected. Once a family member becomes an heir, he remains the heir until he dies or is promoted to faction leader regardless of whether his authority changes. In other words, the authority stat determines the heir of the heir.

Anyways, this ^ is the correct answer

[Highlander of Scotland]

what this is the wrong thread Janisssary