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Wills, widows, & lines of descent

Eleanor Konik
Nov 09, 2021
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I've been working on a novella that relies pretty heavily on inheritance rules. I thought they were pretty unusual at first, but the more I dug into how different societies handle inheritance the more I realized that there's been a lot more variation than I thought there was. Still, there are surprisingly few unique systems.

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