Some things had been arranged in advance, such as the Wrynn Family's emergency successor. The arrangement had been made when Medivh became a noble of Gevot.
At the time, Medivh had no children, so his emergency successor was his partner Audrey, who had followed him all the way.
After his eldest son, Anduin, was born, the emergency successor was changed to Anduin.
It had never changed since. From Viscount to Marquis, the Wrynn Family's emergency successor had always been Anduin.
If anything happened to Medivh and he left no will, Anduin would automatically inherit the title of Wrynn Marquis.
The Noble Heraldry Institute, along with all the nobles of Gevot, would ensure the succession went smoothly.
The emergency successor system was a safeguard in Plane Wars.
The battlefield could change in an instant, and anyone could die unexpectedly.
The emergency successor system ensured a noble family could make a stable transition without infighting or having its title usurped. It allowed a noble family that had lost its head to quickly stabilize and return to the Plane Wars.
There could be more than one emergency successor. The nobles of Gevot could establish a whole list of emergency successors to ensure that, if disaster struck, at least one of them would still be alive.
If all the emergency successors died, the Noble Heraldry Institute could only choose an heir from a collateral branch.
This was relatively rare, but it did happen. For example, during the Fel Cataclysm in Zaun, the direct heirs of many noble families had been wiped out, leaving collateral branches to inherit.
After the Fel Cataclysm, quite a few nobles from elsewhere arrived in the Zaun City-State.
They were families that had split off and established themselves independently. When every direct heir of the main family had died, they