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lilmik552

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So I was reading the wiki and tried googling the answer to this question and couldn't seem to find it.

Does anyone know if the player (yourself) can become an elder if old enough and meeting the requirements as a count or duke tier or is it only courtiers who get selected?
 

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Your vassals can. So probably you too. But I never saw that myself, since there is no starts as a vassal with that succession type. You kinda have to place yourself as a vassal to check it out.
 

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Your vassals can. So probably you too. But I never saw that myself, since there is no starts as a vassal with that succession type. You kinda have to place yourself as a vassal to check it out.

Hmm interesting, maybe could be tested in a multiplayer game. I love Eldership succession personally and think I'd be fun to mess with a friend as an Elder by voting for a horrible candidate haha.
 

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Your vassals can. So probably you too. But I never saw that myself, since there is no starts as a vassal with that succession type.

Are you sure? I know that Romuva rulers start out with eldership in 769, and some of them have playable vassals. I had assumed that those vassals also have Eldership, but I've never checked.
 

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There is nothing in the code preventing a human player from becoming an elder. The only reason it's so uncommon is because human players tend to not spend much time as vassals of eldership realms.

I don't think there are any starting king tier eldership realms so you'd have to be count/chief for a while to see yourself become elder.