What really stinks is when everything is going great. Your heirs have tons of everything, you've been breeding well and culling the herd when appropriate and your 9-star, 8-acumen, Pious, feared, kick butt king produces a dunce then dies.

His snotty little moron with 2-stars, 1-feather, and is about as intimitating as a rose petal assumes the throne just before you charge him into a wall of spears. Did I mention he likes little boys and you'll prolly have to cheat to produce a heir? LOL beware it just happened to me not to long ago. Leave us not say he ascended the throne and died a violent death 4 years later. His very charming and competent younger brother took over running the empire.