Isn’t Simba’s daughter, Kiara, in line to the throne?
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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months agoNo, inheritance law is clear, they’re on a clear male-only primogeniture system with no election from the peers, Simba was king as soon as his father died, The King is Dead, Long Live the King and such.
Scar was just a pretender to the throne.
whitelaw@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Clearly the experience with Scar prompted some succession reform!
treetop@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But Simba voluntarily went into exile, de facto abdicating the throne to the next heir, which was Scar.
No pretending, Scar had a legitimate claim!
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months ago
A fair point, if Simba had reached maturity, but as a child King, we must assume that Simba was in regency and decisions vis a vis abdication would have to be approved by the regent in good faith.
I do not know whether Mufasa had declared a regent to supercede the typical rules that would place Scar in the position, but I think even if you take his manipulations as regent approval we can assume that Scar’s behavior at the least was not in good faith and, IIRC, his assumption of the throne was based on the lie that Simba was dead, not that he abdicated.