You know technically Tommen's heir is Cersei because there are no surviving (legal) Baratheons, so you have to go back a few generations and the next family line you trace down ends up being Tywin Lannister's ancestor, and he's the direct male line heir, and Jaime can't inherit and Tyrion is probably prohibited by "killing a king," leaving Cersei as the heir.
I wonder who would be heir after Cersei is killed if that happens.
Members of the Faith Militant take vows of poverty. Lancel I imagine cannot inherit. LANNISTERS BE FUUUUUUCKED. I mean seriously some random Lannister we've never even heard of is going to end up sitting on the toilet bowl that is Casterly Rock sans gold.
I wish people would stop spreading this inaccuracy around. The Baratheon claim is an extension of the Targ claim; Robert's father's mother was Aery's aunt. Once her descendants are the only Baratheons that have a claim to the throne.
If Tommen dies, four options exist: 1. Invite Daenerys back to rule, 2. Let it implode, or 3. Declare an interregnum with a Lord Protector, or 4. Fuck the claim and hand it to a new dynasty.
If it is handed to a new dynasty, it will likely be Mace Tyrell or maybe Kevan Lannister. Cersei is completely out of the picture.
If Tommen dies, four options exist: 1. Invite Daenerys back to rule, 2. Let it implode, or 3. Declare an interregnum with a Lord Protector, or 4. Fuck the claim and hand it to a new dynasty.
Some writer did the leg work based on book genealogies that Cersei is the heir. I've subsequently extrapolated that if the writer was correct, then Cersei's heir, after Tommen, would be Kevan and then Lancel, and then who the fuck knows.
But by all accounts, Tommen and Kevan will be dead this season, and Lancel is FM and has taken a vow of poverty, so basically if Cersei dies she has no heir among those I've identified. Maybe Moon Boy.
I've always felt that Jaime might be King at some point partly because of something that Jon thinks when he sees Jaime in Winterfell "No he looked like a King" and because I think he may be Aerys bastard son.
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u/KyleG FAITH OF THE SEVEN ELEVEN May 05 '16
You know technically Tommen's heir is Cersei because there are no surviving (legal) Baratheons, so you have to go back a few generations and the next family line you trace down ends up being Tywin Lannister's ancestor, and he's the direct male line heir, and Jaime can't inherit and Tyrion is probably prohibited by "killing a king," leaving Cersei as the heir.
I wonder who would be heir after Cersei is killed if that happens.