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[Maldevious]

Just got the King in my fort today, and I'm somewhat disappointed. His wife died at some point in world-gen, and he has no children.

If he were to have an... accident... what would happen? Would a new King be chosen (since there are no heirs) and sent to my fort? Would there just be no more king?

[Retro]

Sadly, there would just be no more king. If you wanted, you could appoint your highest other level of nobility the custom profession of King and treat them like one, but it would just be pretending, really.

[o_O[WTFace]]

Worldgen people don't come back because worldgen stuff does not happen during a fortress

[JaaSwb]

Succession doesn't occur outside world gen, so if you ever lose that King (and you will, to old age if nothing else) you will have doomed your civilisation to go leaderless for eternity.

[SkyRender]

That gives me an interesting idea for how things could work out in later versions.  Perhaps you could have your adventurer gain notoriety and fame amongst their people, eventually becoming king by their own hand.  Or baron/baroness.  Or duke/dutchess.  Or count/countess.  The ability to form the nobility class from your own adventurers would be awesomely cool, and would make it that much harder to incinerate them when they demanded you build 3 Unobtanium anvils every season.

[Aspgren]

What's that? Grant nobility to someone without a birthright??

PREPOSTEROUS

[inteuniso]

How do you think they got there in the first place hmmm?

[derekiv]

How do you think they got there in the first place hmmm?

Divine Right

[SkyRender]

How do you think they got there in the first place hmmm?

Divine Right

 Actually, the way it works now, that's more or less correct if you consider the randomizer to be a deity.

 It'd be much cooler to have rulers who came into power Conan-the-Barbarian-style, by chopping off the heads of anyone who refused to follow them and basically becoming king by fear.  Much more Dwarven, that would be.

[clc02]

consider the randomizer to be a deity.

All bow before the random number god!  It is he who grants your left toe, right eye, and left ear to be dismembered via spinning water.

[monkeyfetus]

How do you think they got there in the first place hmmm?

Divine Right

 Actually, the way it works now, that's more or less correct if you consider the randomizer to be a deity.

 It'd be much cooler to have rulers who came into power Conan-the-Barbarian-style, by chopping off the heads of anyone who refused to follow them and basically becoming king by fear.  Much more Dwarven, that would be.

I'm pretty sure that's how goblin succession is supposed to work.

[Satarus]

What's that? Grant nobility to someone without a birthright??

PREPOSTEROUS

Still your tongue.  I will not listen to you treasonous talk about King Cacame, the Immortal Onslaught.  He was appointed to be the monarch when he was nothing more than a Guard.

[Shrike]

And an elf.

[Lord_Shadow]

How do you think they got there in the first place hmmm?

The lady of the lake held Excalibur aloft from the surface of the lake, her arm clad in the finest mithril showing that by divine Providence I Arther was to be king.

I see no problem with watery tarts distributing weaponry as a basis for government. Whats this crap about true power being derived from the people shit.