Who said anything about release XD
Fast forward to MC and Lena’s children. I see no reason why the next king would not want another kingdom for themselves, give it to their favourite sibling or divide it among all of their siblings as new subjects. MC and Lena’s children would have both the resources and a better claim than Xavier through Lena.
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Why would lena give up her queenship? Xavier might have be the father choose heir, but she the one whose being ruling for years. At this point Xavier is unfit after years of being a prisoner for so long and being out the loop of plotics. Even with marrying mc I imaging we would be ruling both kingdoms or combing them in to one. Xavier would go to the old castle and act a vessle to lena safe in their old terratory. While we rule both and our kids will rule everything and if he has any Xavier’s will be vessles.
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I think it depends: is Lena actually Queen, or is she the regent? If she’s the queen, then Xavier would need to contest her rule (through civil war). Even if his father wanted him to be king. Look at Lady Jane Grey.
If she’s the regent, then she would have to give up power once he’s home and of age. If she doesn’t want to, then that’d be a coup. It would be easier for her though, if she has noble support.
Personality problems and such are present, for sure, but Xavier’s problem are far, FAR more blatant. Even Freya, who quite literally refuses to interact with the idea of being a monarch, doesn’t have as many issues as a possible monarch as he does.
Popular support was absolutely a big issue; if not for the fear of the peasantry (which DID revolt in several occasions, and sometimes even succeeded like in the Dithmarschen or The Netherlands) then for the fear of the nobility who would without a doubt use this as an excuse to seize power by killing or deposing Xavier and installing someone they prefer on the throne.
Personal Unions are a bit more complicated than that, but if Lena and MC were to go full Castille & Aragon, they would most definitely become the top dog of the region. Rhivenia is already implied to be one of the stronger kingdoms due to Charles being able to bully others, and if Asinea, who was strong enough that Charles didn’t invade it when they literally had no monarch other than a small girl, were to unite with Rhivenia, then they would probably be able to obliterate their other neighbours.
Uh, no? If she wished to abdicate, that would have been perfectly possible. Would the nobles most likely throw a fit and try to depose him? Yes. Would she herself have been forced to fight him? No.
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I was working under the assumption that she didn’t give up the throne. Of course that’s an option for her.
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How many people actually know the king was going to name Xavier over lena? I’m not sure if even Lena was knew this.
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That’s what she does in the original, if you agree to marry her.
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I mean sure, you can keep him a prisoner but then it’s not like Lena can’t make him a ruler regardless. What are you going to threaten her with in order to stop her, “i’ll kill your brother who’s now the king”? That will only give her back the crown and remove anything that could’ve held her in check until now.
And then there’s also the part that Anna_B brought up.
I really don’t think Freya is any better as a ruler in terms of personality. She’s both completely ignorant and unwilling. Xavier meantime has at least some education, since he was imprisoned as a teenager and not a newborn. And doesn’t seem averse to the idea of being a ruler.
This is vastly overselling how capable the nobility would be to get on the same page regarding possible candidate, never mind being then able to organize to enforce such demand instead of just stabbing one another in the back for some relative gains. You only need to have a look what a shitshow royal elections in Poland were, taking many months and sometimes a year to achieve consensus, and that was with the whole process being public.
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True, but at least while her ‘pirate romance’ is secret, she doesn’t have anything she could be called a traitor and puppet for.
They don’t exactly need to all get on the same page. From inviting someone else to take over a la William of Orange to simply deposing him and installing whoever else had any manner of claim on the throne (way too many examples to name) civil wars were hardly uncommon.
My point is, Xavier would have a gigantic target painted on his back if he were made king. It’s not a job he is in a position to take.
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The potential for revolution is made worse by the fact that Charlie Brown has kind of set the example that royals bleed just like the rest of us. He executed the previous king and was himself poisoned; once word gets out that “wait, we can just kill the king if we don’t like him?” suddenly people are gonna start getting ideas.
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Now I wonder how many times the MC will be attacks from peoples from there kingdom’s because of this, either peoples who want Richard to rule instead or those who join our cousin’s side.
No idea. The sword needs to go. It causes more problems than its worth. Just picks an heir. Causes chaos each time. Yep, new law, sword cant say shit. I will give it to the heir I adopted. Not making kids, plenty I can adopt out there as is. The heir gets to pick on their own. F that useless sword. More oft its ignored anyway. Hence rebellions being common. At least, sounds like it.
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Better question actually, why do people listen to the sword to begin with? Maybe I’m forgetting, but who made it and why are we treating it as the law anyways? Who’s to say it wasn’t made by some spiteful witch or that it’s some cursed artifact?
Because I was going to say the sword is literally magic, so of course we should trust it’s going by some reasonable metric to determine a worthy heir, but for all we know, it literally could exist to destroy the kingdom.
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They don’t, hence the rebellions.
The ironic part is that if this is true and the sword really is just a massive troll, then the sword most likely picked you because you were the worst and most controversial choice to succeed Charlie Brown, which means an absolute buffoon is in charge now and has fumble their way out of this mess.
Right, but my counterpoint is that having giant target on one’s back isn’t something that even historically actually stopped many kings from assuming the throne. It worked out for some and didn’t for others, but it can’t be claimed that it makes Xavier absolutely unfit and that his sister is the only acceptable option here.
It is a job he is technically in position to take, and whether he can make it work remains to be seen.
Did King Oliver ever announce that Xavier was his sucessor? I know he told the MC and Charles but did he declare it?
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I imagine so, seeing how he’s told it both to MC and Charles. There’s no reason to think he’d inform them first but not his subjects.
You may dislike it, but that’s just foolish. The sword is great for the sole reason that it gives actual legitimacy to a random heir. Inheritance in monarchies is always a complicated deal. If you want to adopt and not have kids, that’s even worse, all it takes is someone saying “Oh, the monarch said they wanted ME to inherit in their deathbed” and boom, civil war. And what happens if the monarch dies before picking someone as a heir? With normal inheritance you’d just put either a kid, or if they had none, a close relative. But what do you have with a choice?
Plus, the only reason why we’re even in any danger with the sword’s choice right now is because of Richard being brainwashed by his mother his whole life.
Yes, and there was nothing stopping the sword from choosing Freya if it wanted, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a wise decision. If Lena wants to keep Xavier safe, then putting her brother on the throne is a horrible idea.
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