Quote Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
One thing I have also been wondering is what happens if one of our nobles' vassals meets his untimely death at the hands of the enemy ?

Does our Duke fall one rank for having lost his Marquis or does he remain a Duke ?

I was thinking of House Austria in KoTR where the high mortality rate of avatars would make for a very instable house due to reasons having nought to do with internal political struggle...

This would lead to some houses ready to risk the lives of only the lowliest of vassals (whose death would not matter much) to keep the highest ranking avatars in power thus creating castes of high-ranking "political" avatars and low-ranking "fighting" avatars...

I may be all wrong in my reasoning but if I'm right in anyway that would be a source of unfun for me...
Currently, it seems that yes, the whole chain would drop if someone died. They could reform the chain, and add someone in as fast as they could, but it would drop temporarily. Unless the player took a new RBG and just rejoined the House right away. That would minimize the drop effect. But of course the player wouldn't have to.