>Well, there are many ways to deal with continuity of a monarchy. It
>really depends on what the rules are for Karlsland.

Fritz does have several brothers, but for various reasons we don't need to get into here, none of them is acceptable to a majority of the Bundesrat, so while the succession is sorted on paper, in practice it's anything but. If Fritz had died in Gallia a while back, there would have been an almighty tangle - maybe even a low-grade civil war, which the country, and indeed the Grand Alliance, can ill afford.

>About the only option that I know is off the table is declaring
>Gryphon as his heir.

Yeah, that wouldn't work on... a number of levels.

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