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Originally Posted by mlangsdorf
They could ask the current king to help out, and that's explicitly been one of the possible approaches since the beginning. The problem is that the current king is not sympathetic to the PCs' interests, and the former heir presumptive is sympathetic to them. So while the heir presumptive might say "sure, borrow half my army and I'll raise local taxes to support the expeditionary force", the current king is going to say "you can borrow a quarter of my army and you have to pay them at mercenary rates" if he agrees at all.
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If the favor they actually want is to borrow half the army, then changing royal lineages is probably not an option. Even if you could engineer it, the new king will need his army for a while to establish his own authority locally, he can't *afford* to loan it to somebody else until he's sure nobody is going to revolt against the new regime.