REFRIED ERA · DEATH/WISH POLITICAL SPOILERS
Royal Line and Succession at a Glance
Confirmed rulers · missing generations · lawful claimants · the Contest of Kings
How to Read This Chart
CONFIRMED RULER
Explicitly crowned or recognized in the surviving record.
LEGAL CLAIMANT
Eligible to seek the Crown under a documented Charter provision.
UNKNOWN OR INCOMPLETE
The record confirms a transition or institution without preserving every name.
This chart does not invent monarchs to fill gaps in the chronicles. It separates established rulers from lawful claimants and explicitly marks the generations whose names have not yet been preserved.
The Royal Sequence
The Original Crown
Age of Heroes monarchs and royal households
The palace and Crown are firmly established, but the surviving quest chronicles do not preserve a complete dynasty or uninterrupted list of rulers.
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Collapse of the Old Order
The abandoned palace, final gear crisis, and eruption of Mount Ominous end the old political geography. The catastrophe breaks continuity between the original capital and the kingdom that must be rebuilt.
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King Grimblewaith and Queen Wren
Confirmed founders of the Refried royal order
Their coronation begins reconstruction, public remembrance, and the civic tradition later governed through the Kingdom Charter and Declaration of Dependence.
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Intervening Refried Monarchs
Names and exact succession not yet fully preserved
The later capital possesses a functioning Crown, council, Charter, royal library, King’s Watch, and established line of succession, confirming generations of government between the founding coronation and Death/Wish.
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The Royal Line Fails
A monarch dies without a suitable direct heir, activating the Charter’s emergency succession provisions and opening the throne to more than one lawful interpretation.
The Three Competing Routes
JABB
Council Clause
As the highest-ranking councillor and commander of the King’s Watch, JABB claims the vacant throne through the Charter’s continuity provision.
Sir Jacques
Surviving Quest Party Clause
As an original Quest Party member who remains alive through immortality, Sir Jacques possesses an unusual but textually valid route to a competing claim.
Sir Roderick XIII
Direct Quest Party Heir Clause
As a living direct heir of the original Sir Roderick, Roderick XIII qualifies under the same subsection intended to preserve the founders’ political standing.
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The Contest of Kings
When qualified claims remain unresolved, the Charter requires a best-two-of-three contest. One side chooses the first event, the opponent chooses the second, and an impartial third party selects the deciding challenge.
What the Chart Does Not Claim
- It does not name undocumented monarchs between Grimblewaith and Wren and the later Refried court.
- It does not treat a legal claim as proof of moral fitness.
- It does not assume that possession of a relic creates royal authority.
- It does not assume that the Refried palace stands on the exact site of the original palace.
- It distinguishes royal succession from the separate sovereignty of figures such as King Ogeron of the giants.
Chronicler’s note: A family tree usually branches. A Beandom succession chart also includes catastrophes, immortal witnesses, disputed subsections, and at least one chorus attempting to influence the judges.
Michael D. Young 