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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