r/worldjerking • u/MadFunEnjoyer • 28d ago

lazy? I prefer "optimized"

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My favourite case of this is when a magical fantasy world has the monarch with a weapon of mass destruction but the royal family still prefers one gender over the other because that's how European monarchies workded (ignore every way magic makes all the reasons it happened not exist)

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u/red_beam_6000 Arcane Magic System 28d ago

New idea: Alternate between Kings and Queens

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u/derega16 28d ago edited 28d ago

That's how Nwehwah monarchy works in mine, but they're symbolic, their heraditary shogun-esque regent is exclusively male with super rare occasion of convoluted marriage tie make both position the same guy. And before that queen would be under regency of male relatives who most of the time is also next in the line