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Major Noble Inheritance in Osrona - Theori - 06-18-2021
Major Noble Inheritance in Osrona
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If you’re an Osronan Major Noble (Astor, Grimmore or Pelleaux) planning to have children or adopt.
Inheriting Headship:
By default, the adult firstborn of the current Head of a noble family inherits the position of Head upon the death or retirement of the existing Head. This, however, may change depending on circumstances.
- Default succession is superseded by the decree of the Head themselves. A designated successor always has a greater claim on the Headship, so long as they themselves are an adult, trueborn member of the family - that is, a member of the family by blood and through a legally recognised union.
- Some families may hold a preference towards Male or Female members, with the Firstborn Male or Firstborn Female respectively being primary inheritors. This, however, has largely fallen out of fashion, and most Noble families practice a gender-equal succession.
- If there are no valid adults to serve as head of a family, the parent of the heir who is part of the family purely as a spouse may serve as a regent until the heir comes of age. This allows them to manage - but not change in any way - family properties, businesses, etc.
- The Main Line of a family follows the path of inheritance of the Headship. The children of the current Head of the family are always considered part of the Main Line, but the children of a child of the Head who does not themselves become the head are considered the beginning of a new Branch line.
- A branch line of the family is created when a member who is not the Head has children themselves. These children are considered the beginning of a Branch Line. Unlike the main line, which may spawn branches every generation, a branch line does not create further, separate branch lines in successive generations.
- Only a noble family member by blood may hold a ven or vey particle. An individual who marries into the family may take the family name, but the lack of particle signifies they are not a member by blood and thus not entitled to inheritance.
- The ‘ven’ particle is for the main branch only; i.e. the branch down which the Headship passes. If the Head of a noble family has three children (Child A, B, and C), all three hold the particle ‘ven’. If child A becomes the Head of the family, child A’s children will hold the ‘ven’ particle; the children of child B and C, however, will be ‘vey’, as they have passed outside of the direct line of succession.
Nobles may adopt children, but this is a purely personal matter outside of the Noble Family structure. Adoption permits the legal, unchallengeable inheritance of personal property, but not Familial property such as Noble Manors. Adoptees have no entitlement to the Headship or surname of a family, and are themselves not legally recognised as nobles. This is due to their lack of shared blood with the age-old family, and thus lack of the blessing of the cosmos passed down from this lineage.