How in the world do you establish your leadership that this should be the case? Such positions should only be held by those whose people entrust them with the honor, and such honors ought to be revoked if, stars forbid, it should prove necessary.
It usually starts with one ruler who did earn the right to rule. But then the ruling power passes from that person to their children, to their children's children, and so on... unless they don't have any, or unless they die before they can have heirs. Then the succession is a little more complicated.
What reason is there in simply passing rule from one individual to their offspring-- there certainly is no guarantee that child will be the one best suited to it, or that their own talents are not better applied elsewhere.
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They don't have empires where you're from, do they.
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It usually starts with one ruler who did earn the right to rule. But then the ruling power passes from that person to their children, to their children's children, and so on... unless they don't have any, or unless they die before they can have heirs. Then the succession is a little more complicated.
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There are rebellions.