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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1540606" data-attributes="member: 18377">Well, it is not uncommon for a bad law to encourage what it is aimed at suppressing, so perhaps this feature of your world is realistic. But note:Under your law, someone who kills the king for the throne actually stands to get it, which encourages him to try. Whereas if the revivified king got to keep his throne, there would be no point in assassinating a king to get his throne, because it simply wouldn't work. People wouldn't even try.Let's try applying your logic to burglary rather than assassination: "If a person is prepared to break into your house to steal you stuff once, he'll be prepared to do it again, which would be expensive in repairs. It is better to let him keep his ill-gotten gains so that he won't damage the locks again." Whereas I say: "If we take the goods back and hang, draw, and quarter the thief, burn his body, mix the ashes into a block of concrete and put it in the foundations of the building, the incentive to steal stuff will be diminished."And I am just trying to imagine the political realities. Can you imagine that if Alexander the Great had been resurrected, his generals would have been able to pull his empire apart. Hell no! Law or no law, he would have had the prestige to simply resume command.Similarly with Henry I. Do you think the barons of England would have elected Stephen of Blois king just because Henry had been dead for a few days? And do you think he would have let them if they had tried? Henry didn't let the law put Robert on the throne ahead of him, and he wouldn't have let it put Stephen or Matilda on it ahead of him either.Succession to a throne (or other landed estate) is rarely law and usually war or politics. If a king or noble was strong enough (politically and militarily) to get and keep it in the first place, he would still be strong enough to keep it after a revivification. If not, he could always get it again.</blockquote>

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