Be a great ruler/conqueror

>be a great ruler/conqueror
>your heirs are shit

Is this the great tragedy of men?

Nah.

So long as you build a working state. As opposed to the -id Empires the likes of Steppeniggers like to build that collapses after the death of the genius founder because it is heavily reliant on a stronkman.

It's easy, orchestrate your own family's fall to the most capable man you can find to rule your country

His heirs were shit, because he didn't support them. He could have negotiated to have Jaime been released from the kingsguard, thus securing himself an heir. He could have supported his dwarf sons lust for political prowess and intrigoues by sending him to the citadel to study, instead he publicly humiliated them his whole life to the point where the little man just couldn't take it and killed him. He considered his daughter to be a whore in service of his interest, and this is the only thing he did good and the only thing that kept his family in power.

I was talking about history in general.

monarchy was mistake

A state depends on strong centralization, heavy regulated aristocracy, and bureacratic administration. A strong state basically neuters the crown. Tywin fucked up by falling for the absolutist meme. An organization is only strong if it is composed of strong people and can replace them as needed.

Worked okay for the Hapsburgs. They kept it going for 700 years.

not always, most times the heirs are mediocre compared to the great hero/conqueror, but they're not a faliure, sometimes they are a failure and sometimes they are as great

>be a great conqueror and ruler
>your heir is somehow even better than you
Based Julius