the king is dead. he has died in his bed at the age of 56 from failing health.and he has left behind no heir... his closest living relative is his sister who is married to a neighboring king and she is not eligible for inheritance under agnatic primogeniture
worse yet, rumors have spread that the neighboring kings plan to invade
there are 3 eligible dukes who can take power
the first duke holds large rich holding and has served on the advisory council for nearly 40 years. but he is 80 years old and can't even walk without the aid of a servant and he has been know a stubborn man who pushed to subjugate the tribal land in the south to "prove we aren't to be pushed around".
the second duke is a 19 year old who has inherited his land from his father only 4 months ago. he has experience as a military commander and is know to be incredibly hot headed but outside of that he is unproven.
the 3rd duke holds the smallest holding and he's been plagued chronic with pneumonia since he was a child, despite this he is known as an accomplished diplomat, he served on the council. and is known as a mild mannered man. he is well known for railing against the church and calling to revoke land from the clergy and redistribute it among the less wealthy peasantry.
Massacre the dukes. Raze the palace. Arm the citizens to repel foreign invaders, then strike out and liberate their citizens too.
Nathan Rogers
Your ass is gonna get invaded.
Dukes are gonna get dunked
Christopher Miller
The middle class of merchants and bureaucrats who existed outside the aristocracy will become the new leaders, a mixture of idealistic lawyers and grubbing capitalists who will alternately commit to sweeping social reforms while at the same time carving out sections of the economy as their personal nest egg.
Dylan Morales
and the other kings take advantage of the instability and invade before this can take root ultimately carving up the kingdom.
BAD END...
David Flores
This is basically how the Scottish Wars of Independance started. The Scots asked King Edward of England to help oversee a similar situation, and he put forward that John Balliol should be crowned Monarch, to which the Scots agreed. However Balliol was a weak King and sought advice from Edward so frequently he eventually became a puppet, and eventually Edward openly took control and kicked Balliol out the position. Then the wars happened.
Jose Phillips
The New Authority confiscates anything belonging to the old regime and then goes further, turning the churches into public schoolhouses and stripping them of wealth, making the clergy destitute or exiled. All revenue must now be filtered through the state, who will centrally plan all development, private enterprise must be contained, such selfishness is inherently counterrevolutionary. Anyone who lusts after profits is not sufficiently patriotic enough, they must understand that sacrifice for the betterment of the state as a whole is the ideal goal of any business. Your toil, your ingenuity, etc. all of it must be put toward the grander purpose than personal enrichment.
Jaxon Myers
Except when that happened in post-Revolutionary France the other kings armies were smashed and the French marched out and went on to conquer nearly all of Europe.
NAPOLEON END
Jose Lee
"You cannot stop me," Napoleon warned the Austrian statesman Metternich, "I can spend 30,000 men a month." As much as I find the French disagreeable, this quote is great.
Michael Barnes
Arise citizens, raise your battalions, until the blood of the impure fills the furrows of our fields.
