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Old 06-06-2018, 09:03 AM   #330
jason taylor
 
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Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by Daigoro View Post
Rule by deceased ancestor. The current monarch is still alive and subject to external influence and thus open to corruption in his rulings and decisions.

The most recently deceased monarch has the experience and wisdom of a lifetime at his disposal, and is now able to make pure decisions for the good of the nation incorrupt of earthly desires or fealties.

Thus the living monarch is the mouthpiece of his predecessor, and is actually heir-apparent until his demise.

There could be significant issues if the heir-apparent dies at an inappropriately young age.
That is actually not all that uncommon in a kin-group. Usually of course the deceased ancestor is symbolically ruling rather then people actually believing he speaks through the current chief. It does have it's advantages. So long as the mythology is not bothered to much by pesky historians(come to think of it, they still haven't managed to taint Arthur, probably because no one really knows much about him anyway), a dead king cannot abscond with Church funds, run off with Senator's wives, or kill a man therefore he has a lot of advantages.
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