Succession Laws

These succession laws are to help determine who will be heir, or in this case Torch Holder, from each generation. Pinstar has a great system of determining heir-ship, and my list of laws are drawn directly from his website. You can find a full explanation of all the succession laws here.

Here is my chosen set of qualifiers:

Gender Law
Equality: The Founder may be of either gender. Both boys and girls are eligible for the title of heir.

Bloodline Law
Strict Traditional : To be eligible to be named heir, a child must be naturally born from their previous-generation parents and be able to trace an unbroken bloodline back to the founder. Adopted children may never be named heir.

Heir Law
Democracy: This rule may be used if you are displaying your Legacy Challenge in some public way. Either via Let’s Play, Livestream, blog or other format where people can leave comment. The heir is chosen by your viewers/readers from among the pool of eligible heirs.
[If there are not enough votes, or if a tie-breaker is needed....]
Random: The title of heir is randomly selected from the pool of all eligible children. Every time the eligible pool changes size, The heir must be re-rolled using the new pool.

Species Law
Brood – Heirs must be carried in a pregnancy by the previous heir, regardless of the heir’s gender.