I think i just instant inherited Poland for free?

[MutatedCorpse]

Playing as Austira, emperor of the HRE with everything enacted through the centralised route except the last one that makes everyone one nation.

Poland has been my vassl for a couple hundred years and i had a royal marriage with them. I just got a notification saying i inheried Poland through a PU with the royal marriage right as MY RULER died? Poland is now gone and i have all the territory... for free? can someone explain how this worked lol

 

[bokorthedust]

He could have died at the same time, and you got lucky and inherited them outright. It's very rare, but it can happen.

 

[Blust]

Yeah it can happen. In my Castile run, France inherited Orléans (his vassal) through PU because they share the same dynasty and some shenanigan happened

 

[The Macedonian]

That's quite the grey swan.

I suppose it means that your ruler was both alive and dead for purposes of its end of month calculations. In other words, the game puts all the "overlords" in the "ruler death" queue behind the vassal's. Poland's ruler died (and do did yours), but upon Poland's ruler's death it ran the PU code and granted the PU to you. If it did it the other way around you could get vassals becoming the Overlord through some kind of PU.

Then, it "recognized" that your ruler died and ran the "inherit thrones" code and determined that given your relative development and stability and diplo rep (very high as Austria) gave you the clay.

 

[bokorthedust]

Then, it "recognized" that your ruler died and ran the "inherit thrones" code and determined that given your relative development and stability and diplo rep (very high as Austria) gave you the clay.

I suggest you read this thread about how inheritance actually works. It explains very well that though the factors you've listed are indeed a factor, they are still basically a lie that the game tells you.

How junior partner inheritance really works(Hint: it is not a dice roll)

tl;dr the important new information is in the second paragraph of The Basics section and in the Inheritance Value section The Basics Inheriting a junior partner can happen when the ruler of the senior partner changes(dies, abdicates, new ruler...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

 

[Guibou]

I suggest you read this thread about how inheritance actually works. It explains very well that though the factors you've listed are indeed a factor, they are still basically a lie that the game tells you.

How junior partner inheritance really works(Hint: it is not a dice roll)

tl;dr the important new information is in the second paragraph of The Basics section and in the Inheritance Value section The Basics Inheriting a junior partner can happen when the ruler of the senior partner changes(dies, abdicates, new ruler...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

This is a good thread to read and know about but this as nothing to do with OP's question.

For a regular inheritance to happen it must have been 50years of PU before hand. So this is a straight up inheritance without a PU. This is a 5% chance of happening and the player have absolute no control on it.

Read Atwix's guide on RM and PU to know more, the section 8 about the different phases a nation get regarding dying with no heir.

 

[bokorthedust]

Sure, but it also has nothing to do with the comment I replied to. What probably gave the OP the instant inheritance was that his ruler, the HRE emperor died and that shifted the tiers around.