Make marriage alliances with powerful vassals if you have a lot of children or siblings (bastards are useful here if you can handle having a spouse who hates your guts).You control elective succession factions the same ways you control any other faction: Thus I can't arrange marriages and make alliances. Now I'm a 7 year old with a Regency, which of course stops you from being able to do anything. It certainly doesn't help that I had the worst luck in game history when my great ruler died of Illness at age 30 despite being in great health with good stats. If there is no way to work it, are there maybe plans to fix it and make Civil Wars less common for silly reasons like that? I want to play more historically, which means NOT having elective monarchies (which were extremely rare in reality and are the norm in this game for some reason). So is there a way to stop these demands? I get like three every ruler and I'm about to lose the game because of it. I've read about gaming the system by using Elective Monarchy, but no offense, that is dumb and unrealistic and I don't want to be shoehorned into one style of play to be able to get anywhere. I'm trying to unite the Empire, but fail because I keep having Civil Wars for Elective Monarchy. I'm relatively new to CK2 and I'm playing an extended Learning Game of Leon.