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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
The king is encouraged to have many, many children, by multiple women. These kids make up the nobility for the next generation, and one (chosen by whatever means out of the group) is the next king.
The other royal offspring are forbidden to reproduce, on rather nasty penalties for violation. This means that they cannot sire/give birth to their own heirs, their replacements will be the offspring of their sibling the current monarch. The only legal aristocrats in the system are thus 1rst generation royal offspring, there are no 'rival lines'.
This in practical terms probably means that the actual monarch has to be a male, but the other noble positions could be either sex, as long as the 'no kids' rule was applied to them.
So the Duke/Duchess of Wherever is the child of the previous king, but can have no kids of his/her own, the title will pass to a niece or nephew born from the current king.
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So the king dies. All his childless brothers and sisters surrender their offices and privileges to the late king’s children and do what? Marry? Go into private enterprise? Become clergy? Suicide?
The new generation are presumably unmarried. Are they virgins, or used to using contraceptives? How old are they? What’s their administrative experience? One is chosen to be king and starts rutting like a champion as well as running the government. Within a yearish you start getting young princes and princesses being born. They will be kind of old enough to succeed when the king dies if he lasts twenty years. But you really need the king to last thirty years to have potential heirs suitable to succeed. But anyway, the kings dies and all his siblings stand down. How old are their successors? Some aren’t born yet, probably.The oldest are ablout a year younger than the length of the reign.
What happens when a king succeeds at thirty and dies at thirty-seven, with fourteen pre-school-aged princes and princesses in the nursery and the womb? When happens when a king succeeds at twenty-seven and lives to ninety-eight, leaving the succession to be contested among one hundredchildless offspring ranging from infancy to the age of seventy? What happens when a king succeeds at sixty-nine, enters upon the accustomed duties, and eleven years later still has no children?