What is your best advice to get rid of an heir with the imbecile trait? AFAIK it's not possible to assasinate him, so what can I do to prevent him becoming my next ruler?
How to get rid of an imbecile heir?
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Imprison --> Execute. Will incur tyranny, but sometimes you have to pick the lesser evil.
Change Succession Law if you can, or do the right thing and roll with it. You have a poor heir, so did many good to great kings in history.
Would sending him on a suicide mission with a small army be a valid option?
And to imprison him I would have to get him to revolt against me, right?
And to imprison him I would have to get him to revolt against me, right?
You could send a small army against a doomstack, or retire to a monastery, or hope he joins a holy order.
If you have a vassal pope excomunicate him, imprison and execute. You´ll get kinslayer but no tyrany. EDIT: You can´t make your immediate heir a bishop, but
I have made my 1st grandson a bishop so the genius 2nd grandson would be the future heir.
I have made my 1st grandson a bishop so the genius 2nd grandson would be the future heir.
Can you force your heir to take the vows if he is imprisoned? I've never thought to try.
If you go the hope he dies in battle route, don't send him in a small army that's guaranteed to be destroyed. That doesn't actually increase his chance of dying (though it will increase his chance of getting imprisoned FWIW). Send him into battles that are likely to last a long time while he is ill or wounded to maximize his chances of dying. If he's craven, he's much less likely to get wounded, maimed, or killed in battle and if he's brave he's more likely.
If you go the hope he dies in battle route, don't send him in a small army that's guaranteed to be destroyed. That doesn't actually increase his chance of dying (though it will increase his chance of getting imprisoned FWIW). Send him into battles that are likely to last a long time while he is ill or wounded to maximize his chances of dying. If he's craven, he's much less likely to get wounded, maimed, or killed in battle and if he's brave he's more likely.
It's a Paradox game you're talking about. Drooling imbeciles can solo doomstacks and cross the Pacific without a boat. Twice.
Try making him spymaster and send him to steal from bzantines . Or court chaplain and send to convert heathens . When he's imprisoned, even not by you I think you can get him to monk hood.
I still don't understand why you don't just roll with it. Take the good with the bad....
Change the succession law if you can.
I wonder. If you spy on your heir with the intrigue focus, can you find stuff that will allow you to imprison him without incurring tyranny?
If so, you would only get the tyranny from executing him, right?
That means leaving the child alive until it comes of age. One unlucky event, and...
If you do it early enough why not just wait and send him to the obliette? No kinslayer....
one thing i dislike is you can't set your primary heir to be the heir to a church. what if i don't want my first son to inherit but the 2nd. and i already changed my succession laws to progi. what am i gonna do? i think the sending people to churches and being monks should be more flexible.
I don't think you get those letters from children. Also, you still run the risk of dying before the child due to plots, diseases, etc.