Community Suggestion: Add successor - predecessor relationship type between characters

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Add successor - predecessor relationship type between characters

Content Addition · Family trees · Created by spookyskellyton
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relationships characters heritage successor predecessor royalty

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

Figuring out the lineage and succession of characters can get messy, because it isn't always a simple transition of power upon the death of the previous holder. The relationship system exists and is quite reliable, so adding additional relation types (like the sibling or spouse options we currently have) could expand the use cases greatly.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

By adding a new type of relationship, lines of succession can be more easily tracked on a character-by-character basis, and, if it were extended into a network like the family tree, could even be represented in a pleasing visual diagram.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

This expands the use case for the relationship system beyond being a familial relationship system and into being a useful tool for keeping track of other important relationships between characters. i.e., multiple students to a master, or even tracking how a character develops from apprentice, to lover, to successor. It could even be used to extend the current family tree system by highlighting the line of succession in a royal family.

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! We're closing this because, currently, content trees can already do this (Learn guide: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/content-trees/content-trees). In the future, an update to family trees will make it possible to have more free-form trees, not necessarily based on actual family, which would cover this too.
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Current score

28/300 Votes · +7001 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by choasblast03
    on 2026-01-15 23:06
    If I could vote more than 300 coins I would. There are a lot of use cases in my world for this feature

  • +300

    by Dragolithic
    on 2026-01-14 07:59

  • +300

    by MathuinDaBurr
    on 2026-01-09 15:17
    Going along with what was stated before, this does seem like a useful addition to organizations with the added benefit of being usable by more builders. Not everyone is going to feel able to justify paying for a Grand Master subscription just to access this as a family tree feature, so having it available for both might be a good idea.

  • +300

    by A Fierce Orc
    on 2026-01-08 17:41

  • +300

    by ChroniclesofEvalaw
    on 2026-01-07 17:01

  • +100

    by bphilippe
    on 2026-01-07 06:38

  • +300

    by Uncle Croissant
    on 2026-01-06 17:45

  • +300

    by Jacob-W
    on 2026-01-05 21:29

  • +300

    by isaacbabad
    on 2026-01-05 17:21
    Having a non-family succession chart would be very useful to include in the organisations chart yo allow for charting the history of an organisation. This could also be used in non-family transfers of power in countries (or similar). Finally, as discussed, if the head of a family doesn't follow a pattern then this added functionality will add this more easily as well.

  • +300

    by cow2face
    on 2025-12-31 11:22
    It would maybe fit better with organisations but either way, a good idea

  • +100

    by psrdirector
    on 2025-12-30 16:56

  • +300

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2025-12-30 09:33

  • +300

    by Willow H.R. Harper
    on 2025-12-28 20:13

  • +1

    by CrazyBusyCreative
    on 2025-12-28 16:58

  • +100

    by Lady-knight
    on 2025-12-27 03:54

  • +300

    by A Sneaky Skeleton
    on 2025-12-27 01:33

  • +300

    by spooktacular
    on 2025-12-26 16:03

  • +300

    by Lonnie makes mayhem
    on 2025-12-25 23:32

  • +300

    by JetpackMonkey
    on 2025-12-25 09:50

  • +100

    by ss2020
    on 2025-12-24 22:36

  • +300

    by kaixabu
    on 2025-12-24 14:21

  • +100

    by Herr_Wilhelm101
    on 2025-12-24 12:29

  • +100

    by Elb Tenebris
    on 2025-12-24 11:07

  • +300

    by Writing Bishop
    on 2025-12-23 22:11

  • +300

    by rabitgrl82
    on 2025-12-23 07:47

  • +100

    by Drawkill Dragon
    on 2025-12-22 22:16

  • +300

    by JoellaKay
    on 2025-12-22 20:54
    Adding a succession type relationship to characters would be very useful to me.

  • +300

    by Ratha
    on 2025-12-22 01:43

  • +300

    by spookyskellyton
    on 2025-12-21 20:32
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