

Once the primary title is ensured, all else is much easier. Then vote for that child and make sure he/she is leading the vote. To do this, you can either do what I told you about above, or institute a voting law (more on that below) on at least your primary title. To ensure your best counties get passed to your preferred child, you need to first make sure he/she gets the primary title and the game considers that person to be your primary heir, even if not first in line. This is the hardest form of succession to manage but it’s not impossible with a bit of gymnastics. Most of the time, your succession will be dictated by your religious laws, as well as confederate partition (by default). More often they will get captured but that’s fine too, just don’t ransom them back, especially if they’re moved to a dungeon (they won’t last long there). You can do this by starting a war with someone and ensuring that those heirs have to fight as knights (if they’re adults of course), and then split them off in a separate army and send them to fight an enemy army alone. You can also spend renown to disinherit heirs who are in front of your preferred one, or send them to battle to get killed. However, this option won’t be available to you for quite some time so we’ll need to ensure that our highest ranking title goes to our preferred child via other means.įortunately, there are some title-specific laws that you can institute, and more on that below. Once you can pass the absolute crown authority, you can spend prestige to change your primary heir and basically tell everyone that this is who you consider to be first in line and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Until you have the necessary innovation researched, your primary heir will (typically) be your oldest son, or eligible child.

Let’s start with your primary heir and how this is determined. I’ll try and help you understand how this functions and what you can do about it. When succession happens ( and it inevitably will), the worst thing to happen is to get your personal lands divided up in a way that sets you back significantly. It only really depends on what innovations you have researched and your current situation in terms of your lands, titles and children. Managing succession can be a tricky thing in CK3, however there are a lot of different tools at your disposal.
