New Player: Help! My Heir is Rebellious!

[Dawhoo]

So my heir has become rebellious, but this happened after I gave him titles to get down my BB. So, I am wondering if there is any way to fix this. What can I do? It seems like stripping him of his titles or anything would hurt my prestige (I think that I read somewhere that children without titles hurts you). So far, it has not infected my other vassals, but I am still probably 10 - 20 years from him inheriting so I am worried about the potential of having a very unruly realm by then.

If it does not go away, what happens when he becomes king? Can he infect his vassals?

Finally, my ruler has a low loyalty to himself. Is this a holdover from when he became ruler? Does it matter?

Thanks for all of the help.

 

[unmerged(109046)]

If your ruler has no liege, disregard your loyalty value. It won't affect anything.

Your heir can "infect" other vassals with being rebelious, but if a ruler is independent and rebellious, he will get quickly an event that removes the trait (because he's rebellious against WHO?).

Your best bet is either trying to survive by bribing him every time his loyalty falls too low, or just let him win in a war, and then switch to him.

 

[Dawhoo]

Your best bet is either trying to survive by bribing him every time his loyalty falls too low, or just let him win in a war, and then switch to him.

Can he infect others when his loyalty is high? How does this event work? Also, how would I go about "switching" to him? Reload the game and switching to his kingdom? It seems like I could just give him all of my titles but one king title and then switch if that is the case. Why do I need to lose a war? Prestige?

Thanks for the help.

 

[unmerged(109046)]

I think that higher the loyalty, less often does the rebellion spreading event happen (and also realm duress). And by switching I meant reloading the game as him indeed. And I mentioned war, because he mostly will provoke a war sooner or later (unless he dies or gets an event removing his rebeliousness due to high loyalty) and since he's your son, you can just give him most of your titles and don't worry about the realm, since it will remain in family.

 

[Dawhoo]

Thanks for the help! He actually has lost the trait on his own so that is good.