Talk:Kurt Baumeister/@comment-24053170-20200401024956/@comment-108.28.174.188-20200522135951

While it's true that three of his older brothers disinherited (Paul, Erich, and Helmut; Hermann didn't actually disinherit by joining the branch family, but did basically make clear that he wasn't challenging Kurt for the right to succeed as heir by doing so), and two more were never in line in the first place (those from the mistress, who eventually end up embroiled in their own scandals against the territory at the urging of the sons of Margrave Browig, who controls the East), technically in the Novel Wend formally registers his disinheritance as soon as he's old enough to do so. Artur could choose to honor a reinstatement of it before passing off the title, but to pass over Hermann at that point would itself be unusual, and with Wend being an Earl by that point it's also meaningless to do so.

Additionally, part of why Kurt wants to assassinate Wend is because as oldest brother, he would be the natural next in line to inherit Wend's new titles and property too, since Wend is unmarried and child-less (assuming nobody is left alive that could implicate him as the assassin). Kurt, of course, doesn't know that Wend also established a will, directing his next-in-line after his own as-yet unborn children to be Erich's son, followed by the sons of Paul and Helmut (in order by their son's ages). So Kurt loses either way.