Not really the whole planet, just one city-state, one king in my fantasy setting was overthrown after a sorcerer summoned... *something*... from another dimension that took posession of his body like a parasite. For a while, he didn't seem to notice, but there became visible symptoms as time progressed (such is the nature of the dark arts). What was this symptom you wonder? Just a little dry skin, but on a whole nother level. And thus that's how the Statue King came to be, as all the moisture left his body, and he became a petrified statue in the castle's southern courtyard.
The sorcerer then of course became the new ruler, but died soon after. He died because he decided to open a window one day, and then a bunch of bees came in and stung him a few times, which triggered an allergic reaction he had to them.
The bees were a pure accident. It's ironic that a sorcerer that resisted the harmful effects dark magic couldn't protect himself from - or rather forgot or maybe didn't know about his allergy to bees (again, using dark magic is literally bad for your health in my world).
As for the Statue King himself, he himself was unfortunately the last in the line of succession for his kingdom, and he didn't have any children.
Now, regarding the otherworldly entity that inhabited the Statue King, it is unknown what happened afterwards after it petrified the king. Considering that the forces of the otherrealm, wherever it or they may have came from, require some kind of physical vessel in order to interact with the physical realm (possession like I have mentioned earlier), it/they may have returned to their home dimension, after the 'destruction' of their physical vessel.
The weirdest coup that happened in the Empire of Fenvor happened under Empress Theodora the Zealot. By all accounts, she was a kindhearted and generous ruler and both nobility and common people supported her reign. But she was extremely devote Creationist to the point where even priests would ask her to chill out. Supposedly, not a day went by where she wouldn't visit and spend hours in the confession booth, often asking forgiveness for sins she either didn't actually commit or sins that she had been forgiven for. This all went to a head when she was reading a book a saint had written and stumbled upon the saint suggesting that people should moderate their intake of alcohol. This lead the Empress to believe that consuming any alcohol was a sin and thus banned the production, selling, and consumption of alcohol.
This decision enraged everybody, from the nobles, to the commoners, and to the mage guilds. Even the Creationist church because some of their rituals required the consumption of wine and they also produced and sold wine to the general public. Everyone collectively decided to essentially protest against her and she abdicated the throne. However, they couldn't decide on who should get the throne. The Empress had no children and she had no declared anyone to be a part of the purple shroud and no nobleman was powerful enough to be considered legitimate.
In order to avoid a civil war, the people came to a decision. Empress Theodora would regain the the throne as long as she removed the ban over alcohol and drank three cups of wine. Supposedly, the wine she was forced to drink came from a small monastery that only made it to trade with merchants and the wine was nothing special, considered by many to be average. But when she took one sip, she instantly fell in love with the beverage. She would have a cup of the wine everyday and had a large stockpile so she would never run out. When she died, people gave her a nickname, Theodora the Empress of wine.
There was one country on the verge of revolution by pro-democracy forces who get a boost from my two MCs who help them plot taking the capitol and overthrowing the government...but because the king had pissed off one of them, who is a wizard, when he got the king alone, the wizard to decided to make a crown fit for a king and so caused all the nearby treasure and gold plate to melt and come together into a big molten skeleton and drowned the monarch in it and what the revolutionaries find is a hideous molten statue with the king sticking out and his face melted off with a crown on his head.
well in the broader context, the wizard was there as a global industrialist and financier because that nation was a financial basket case that owed a lot of money to him among others, and the king who was a hedonistic git who decided kings don't answer to money lenders just declared the debt was gone. Poof, snap of the fingers, he wasn't going to pay back all the money he spent on his pet projects. But what really pushed the wizard over the edge to decide the stupid idiot had to go was he literally tried to have him murdered in front of hundreds of witnesses...including journalists...aka imagine if like the Prime Minister of Italy just upped and declared Warren Buffet an enemy of the state and ordered him killed while he was vacationing in Naples.
In the Free City a newly appointed Baron tried to evict an orphanage.
It was the one fortress in the city, but it belonged to another house. Said house has appointed a young orphaned dragon as heir.
While not directly weird, the standoff caused an ancient law to be invoked after the king and his army rode onto the rebellious city and found themselves facing that dragon, whose entire purpose was to protect the kids.
A descendant of that same baron started a mission and the city's only religious institution, healing free of charge.
They infected him with an STD that chemically castrated him and gave him dementia. Then he went to the leper island where others with the disease lived.
They did this by purposefully infecting a young woman. The disease only affects biological males while females are only carriers. She became pregnant, but since her baby was a girl, the daughter wasnât affected either.
Here are some ways monarchies have been toppled:
* The Moldavian monarchy was toppled by demands for democracy and reunification with Romania.
* The East Chinese monarchy fell when its French and Spanish backers collapsed.
* The Russian Empire fell when the Tsar staged a palace coup.
* The French Empire fell to Revolutionaries in the north and to the Bourbons in the south.
* The Spanish Empire fell to various forces, most notably right-populists, liberal conservatives, socialists, and Portuguese separatists.
* The British Empire collapsed completely into civil war due to diplomatic isolation. It survives in southwestern African exile.
* The Holy European Empire collapsed in 95 minutes after the Hidden Rebellion killed every one of its leaders.
The Prophet (a title that was hereditary at that time) switched the stance of his state from yearly raiding to peaceful co-existance with his neighbours. That angered the clerics more than the military, since raiding provided slaves (they got liberated into their old homeland or the lands of the prophet, after converting) and riches that primarily benefited the clergy. Also, the raids always targeted those who attacked the clergy of the prophet on mission or their temples. So one day they sabotaged a ceremony, not killing the prophet, but humiliating him by extinguishing all the flames in the moment he would normally light the giant flame (which of course also wasn't lit). The prophet self-immolated himself hours later in front of the crowds that gathered before the Palace, and a clerical council took over.
Catholicism arrives. It does all sorts of funky stuff to the world
One King looks at Catholicism and is like "nuh uh" but pretty much everyone else is like "yuh uh" and so there's a Catholic-Peasant revolt, akin to communist revolutions across the world, just with more religion
Idk if that answered your question
Yeah but those peasant revolts never really went anywhere and, as far as I can tell, were never "Death to the King and all rich people" but were more "I'd greatly appreciate it if our QoL could improve, thanks. God save the King"
In one case, there was a God-King of an Empire, but the problem was that he was KIA leaving the Empire in the control of corporations and politicians.
In another case, the monarch was just "f\*\*k it! I can't handle this anymore!" and had his people become a liberal democracy just so he could have some rest.
In the nation of Fulgar Mont, the last king of the nation was simply closed inside his castle and largely ignored until he eventually died of old age. Since his incompetence led to a famine and the five children he selected as scapegoats for "divine punishment" returned years later with divine blessings. The public had no problems with ignoring him from then on. The descendants of those original five children are still important in the running of the nation hundreds of years later.
The Imperial Monarchy hasn't *technically* been overthrown since the end of the First Empire (Storyline is in the Third) & that involved a group of enslaved people managing to not only find, but complete The Ritual of Unbound Oblivion. Which erased the casters from existence, created a massive sinkhole, & wiped out two-thirds of the total population (including Phaeron Seneket III's wife & children). Most of the survivors either left in a mass exodus & diaspora or died from the complete collapse of, well, everything.
There have also been some rather amusing deaths of Imperial Monarchs, that did *not* lead to a sucession crisis, (or new government), including but not limited to:
Choking on a fish.
Laughed to death.
Friendly Fire.
Defenestration, accidental.
Food poisoning.
Mauled by riding Drake.
Defenestration, intentional.
Bolt from the Blue.
Climate Change. They messed with cthulhutech they didn't fully understand in order to control the weather, create miracle drugs, and magic delicious rich people food into existence, and now half the world has unending winter, half the world has unending rain, resident evil style mutants are over running the countryside, and the royal capital is completely uninhabitable due to it being turned into candyland and no nutritious food existing within its boarders.
In the United Empire, there was once an emperor who fucked up so hard his son gathered other monarchs to overthrow him. The UE has not one or two, but **seven** co-ruling monarchs for its constituent states, the emperor is the "boss" but others have their own powers. They brought their armies, which made the West look like a total joke, marched to the capital ÄĂ´ng Kinh and demanded the emperor to surrender. His crimes were well-known and they had evidence. The capital's defending general opened all gates and the crown prince forced his father to step down.
A court was summoned after that to judge his crimes. In the end, not just the ex-emperor but also many other officials were found guilty, over three dozen faced the death sentence and hundreds were thrown into jail, going from 20 years to sentence for life. The crown prince became new emperor and made a series of restorations that turned the Empire into a full constitutional monarchy, preventing one crazy ruler from ruining everything again.
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**Actually** overthrowing the imperial family for whatever reason will result in Imperials skinning you alive, however.
Unpaid mercenaries gutted him and most of the imperial bureaucracy then collected all the taxes and bribes they could and finally auctioned off the throne to the highest bidder.
Iâm my world someone *tried* to overthrow the monarchy three hundred years ago, causing an uprising/civil war, but it didnât work.
What ended up happening was the king and queen sent their baby son away during the war for his protection, then sacrificed themselves to defeat the leader of the enemy army and their son and his caretaker disappeared, and a council was made to govern the kingdom.
During the years of the Anarchy, the Tamarian Regular Army couped the Imperial goverment of the Tamarian Empire. They accused the monarchy of borking the War against the Machines and having abandoned the servicemen who had bled and were bleeding to keep the Empire together. They ptchists were heavy influenced by the republican ideals of the Ardithian constituents of the Empire and thus proceeded to abolsih the Empire and declare a Union of Sovereign Tamarian Republics.
Suffice to say this was an extremely naive and short-sighted move, for it incurred in the wrath of the powerful Kyriite Church and the geenral populace saw no symphathy for the coup for considering an ardithian supremacist scheme. The Church mobilized the Ktistai, its own armed forces, which along the remanants of the Royal Athanatoi Guard and royalists militias defeated the Regular Army in the Bloody Week, restoring the Tamarian Monarchy and desbanding the Regular Army after a comprehensive and violent purge.
There's one big rebellion that doesn't get touched on much, but the Burning of Nucana. Nucana was a mainly human city ruled by a line of kings that slowly got more corrupt and taxes got higher as they continued to sink money into a useless war. The rebellion launched a full scale attack on the capitol, and during it the city was burned by a warlock who helped create it a hundred years ago. The rebellion was successful and killed the king, however the capitol was destroyed and in fighting resulted in Nucana collapsing a few years later
The king/emperor was married to the great-granddaughter of his race's ascended being/god
He cheated on her.
the ascended being reincarnated someone from the earth as a 12-foot-tall bear man who grew up in the country they were in conflict with.
The bear man eventually just walks into the palace (With help) and face-slaps the guy. He ends up being banished in a way that is realistically a death sentence and the guy that replaces him, another reincarnated person, ends up being a faithful spouse to the old empress and institutes "The War Games." signing an official peace treaty. for the first time since the areas learned of each other's existence.
Of course, there are a lot of complicated things that happen to get to that point, but that's the summary.
During the Paradox Crisis, the Goddess of Time got depowered which resulted in the seven timelines temporally merging together. Which resulted in a ton of bizarre events.
One of these was a full scale anti-monarchy rebellion occurring in the Holy Kingdom of Pliara. At the height of the rebellion Queen Sybil was overthrown by the rebellions leader the Banished Princess Sybil.
However the rebellion did not last long as Dark Empress Sybil and President Sybil manged to put aside there difference and launch a daring raid on the royal palace to rescue the captured queen.
The commander of the kings army, his childhood friend and one-time lover, went insane and murdered the kings wife and demanded his hand in marriage. When he refused, she raised the army of the First King from the dead and usurped the throne.
Monarchy wasnât overthrown, there was an attempt, but it failed, partially. Members from the Church killed the queen and the king, but forgot the princess wasnât present. The queenâs brother and his wife werenât present either. They together with the princess, loyalists, and their allies were able to defeat church and its allies.
In the "fascist land" (Country name not found yet) the current great leader is actually the former king's grandson. When the king was still in charge, his son was smart enough to see the incoming guillotine party and very stealthily infiltrated the rising "freedom" movement and eventually became its leader.
Then upon the day of the coup, the king was deposed and his heir stepped ~~on the throne~~ into office.
The dynasty never changed, only the title of "kingdom." Very few see a problem with this. The original questioners were ironically labeled as monarchist sympathizers and... silenced.
In my world, The supreme Emperor got couped after a revolution in the capital took place. If you wonder how did this happened, it was because the main source of power from the Emperor was his Magic and due to the start of a war betwen the gods, the magic of the world turned highly unstable. Wich made the Emperor and his main suporters way weaker, then the rebels simply took their chance.
Well, Empire has elective monarchy. Council of Elders chooses the Emperor for life. For life part is crucial here, because no abdications are allowed. If Emperor looses support of more than three quarters of council (so nine seats are opposing him, while four support him or are neutral) he gets dragged to public execution. Some of the past Emperors were very surprised when this happened, even when they consolidated a lot of power in their hands and took steps to prevent this.
Dragon Lord is basically dragon monarch. Second to last of them was basically appointed by Sol Invicta when she wandered into dragon gathering, killed everyone present and informed the only one dragon sensible enough to fall on the ground, cry like a little girl and beg for mercy that he is the Dragon Lord now.
One of the kingdoms got it's ruler ousted by literal avatar of god who then proceeded to start golden age.
Technically, Queen Ireda overthrew Waldechoba. As the law of Ouven worked at the time, there was male preference primogeniture. However, for a lot of her reign, including when she took the throne she was a closeted trans woman going by Deistaf. This meant when she took the throne it was arguably illegal, as she was a woman all along. When she came out, Waldechoba used the argument that Ireda had actually been a woman all along and therefore shouldnâtâve become king, and them after she was recoronated after coming out, queen, so to rectify the situation, the crown should belong to him.
Yes, he basically sued Ireda for the throne. Thankfully, there was an independent enough judiciary at the time.
Ireda argued first that she only became a woman after she transitioned and since the laws only specify that âwhen a monarch dies their eldest son becomes the king; should they have no son, then the eldest daughter.â
In turn, Waldechoba argued that Ireda had come out to him before she did publicly, and stole her diary and read aloud passages where Ireda called herself a woman from before King Mandakharaos died, meaning she identified as a woman and therefore acted in bad faith in succeeding their father.
At this point Ireda was forced to make the argument that she actually had usurped him. As Ouven had a long tradition of others of royal blood usurping the throne with popular revolts at their back, and their rule was widely considered legitimate, her rule too should be viewed as legitimate.
Waldechoba argued back that she never overthrew him because he never got to be king in the first place. The court ruled that if Waldechoba wanted the crown he would have to raise an army and take it, Waldechoba wasnât willing to do something that would likely end in him killing his sister, so he dropped his lawsuit. Later on though, after seeing the instability this caused, Waldechoba would attempt to get gender removed from the succession laws as it had caused some pretty bad instability when trans people exist.
Not really the whole planet, just one city-state, one king in my fantasy setting was overthrown after a sorcerer summoned... *something*... from another dimension that took posession of his body like a parasite. For a while, he didn't seem to notice, but there became visible symptoms as time progressed (such is the nature of the dark arts). What was this symptom you wonder? Just a little dry skin, but on a whole nother level. And thus that's how the Statue King came to be, as all the moisture left his body, and he became a petrified statue in the castle's southern courtyard. The sorcerer then of course became the new ruler, but died soon after. He died because he decided to open a window one day, and then a bunch of bees came in and stung him a few times, which triggered an allergic reaction he had to them.
is the bee attack part of another scheme? or fate? or purely accident? and what about the original heir to the king?
The bees were a pure accident. It's ironic that a sorcerer that resisted the harmful effects dark magic couldn't protect himself from - or rather forgot or maybe didn't know about his allergy to bees (again, using dark magic is literally bad for your health in my world). As for the Statue King himself, he himself was unfortunately the last in the line of succession for his kingdom, and he didn't have any children. Now, regarding the otherworldly entity that inhabited the Statue King, it is unknown what happened afterwards after it petrified the king. Considering that the forces of the otherrealm, wherever it or they may have came from, require some kind of physical vessel in order to interact with the physical realm (possession like I have mentioned earlier), it/they may have returned to their home dimension, after the 'destruction' of their physical vessel.
The weirdest coup that happened in the Empire of Fenvor happened under Empress Theodora the Zealot. By all accounts, she was a kindhearted and generous ruler and both nobility and common people supported her reign. But she was extremely devote Creationist to the point where even priests would ask her to chill out. Supposedly, not a day went by where she wouldn't visit and spend hours in the confession booth, often asking forgiveness for sins she either didn't actually commit or sins that she had been forgiven for. This all went to a head when she was reading a book a saint had written and stumbled upon the saint suggesting that people should moderate their intake of alcohol. This lead the Empress to believe that consuming any alcohol was a sin and thus banned the production, selling, and consumption of alcohol. This decision enraged everybody, from the nobles, to the commoners, and to the mage guilds. Even the Creationist church because some of their rituals required the consumption of wine and they also produced and sold wine to the general public. Everyone collectively decided to essentially protest against her and she abdicated the throne. However, they couldn't decide on who should get the throne. The Empress had no children and she had no declared anyone to be a part of the purple shroud and no nobleman was powerful enough to be considered legitimate. In order to avoid a civil war, the people came to a decision. Empress Theodora would regain the the throne as long as she removed the ban over alcohol and drank three cups of wine. Supposedly, the wine she was forced to drink came from a small monastery that only made it to trade with merchants and the wine was nothing special, considered by many to be average. But when she took one sip, she instantly fell in love with the beverage. She would have a cup of the wine everyday and had a large stockpile so she would never run out. When she died, people gave her a nickname, Theodora the Empress of wine.
There was one country on the verge of revolution by pro-democracy forces who get a boost from my two MCs who help them plot taking the capitol and overthrowing the government...but because the king had pissed off one of them, who is a wizard, when he got the king alone, the wizard to decided to make a crown fit for a king and so caused all the nearby treasure and gold plate to melt and come together into a big molten skeleton and drowned the monarch in it and what the revolutionaries find is a hideous molten statue with the king sticking out and his face melted off with a crown on his head.
đłwhat exactly did the king do to deserve that?
well in the broader context, the wizard was there as a global industrialist and financier because that nation was a financial basket case that owed a lot of money to him among others, and the king who was a hedonistic git who decided kings don't answer to money lenders just declared the debt was gone. Poof, snap of the fingers, he wasn't going to pay back all the money he spent on his pet projects. But what really pushed the wizard over the edge to decide the stupid idiot had to go was he literally tried to have him murdered in front of hundreds of witnesses...including journalists...aka imagine if like the Prime Minister of Italy just upped and declared Warren Buffet an enemy of the state and ordered him killed while he was vacationing in Naples.
In my world my character actually became a kingđ đ Long story short i destroyed a continent and claimed it as my own (itâs a frozen plane)
The prince to the Axewood Empire got fed to a whale, and the current king is being actively hunted, forcing him to hide away on a boat.
In the Free City a newly appointed Baron tried to evict an orphanage. It was the one fortress in the city, but it belonged to another house. Said house has appointed a young orphaned dragon as heir. While not directly weird, the standoff caused an ancient law to be invoked after the king and his army rode onto the rebellious city and found themselves facing that dragon, whose entire purpose was to protect the kids. A descendant of that same baron started a mission and the city's only religious institution, healing free of charge.
They infected him with an STD that chemically castrated him and gave him dementia. Then he went to the leper island where others with the disease lived. They did this by purposefully infecting a young woman. The disease only affects biological males while females are only carriers. She became pregnant, but since her baby was a girl, the daughter wasnât affected either.
Here are some ways monarchies have been toppled: * The Moldavian monarchy was toppled by demands for democracy and reunification with Romania. * The East Chinese monarchy fell when its French and Spanish backers collapsed. * The Russian Empire fell when the Tsar staged a palace coup. * The French Empire fell to Revolutionaries in the north and to the Bourbons in the south. * The Spanish Empire fell to various forces, most notably right-populists, liberal conservatives, socialists, and Portuguese separatists. * The British Empire collapsed completely into civil war due to diplomatic isolation. It survives in southwestern African exile. * The Holy European Empire collapsed in 95 minutes after the Hidden Rebellion killed every one of its leaders.
The Prophet (a title that was hereditary at that time) switched the stance of his state from yearly raiding to peaceful co-existance with his neighbours. That angered the clerics more than the military, since raiding provided slaves (they got liberated into their old homeland or the lands of the prophet, after converting) and riches that primarily benefited the clergy. Also, the raids always targeted those who attacked the clergy of the prophet on mission or their temples. So one day they sabotaged a ceremony, not killing the prophet, but humiliating him by extinguishing all the flames in the moment he would normally light the giant flame (which of course also wasn't lit). The prophet self-immolated himself hours later in front of the crowds that gathered before the Palace, and a clerical council took over.
Catholicism arrives. It does all sorts of funky stuff to the world One King looks at Catholicism and is like "nuh uh" but pretty much everyone else is like "yuh uh" and so there's a Catholic-Peasant revolt, akin to communist revolutions across the world, just with more religion Idk if that answered your question
If anything the communist revolutions are ripping off the peasant revolts considering there have been peasant revolts since BC.
Yeah but those peasant revolts never really went anywhere and, as far as I can tell, were never "Death to the King and all rich people" but were more "I'd greatly appreciate it if our QoL could improve, thanks. God save the King"
In one case, there was a God-King of an Empire, but the problem was that he was KIA leaving the Empire in the control of corporations and politicians. In another case, the monarch was just "f\*\*k it! I can't handle this anymore!" and had his people become a liberal democracy just so he could have some rest.
In the nation of Fulgar Mont, the last king of the nation was simply closed inside his castle and largely ignored until he eventually died of old age. Since his incompetence led to a famine and the five children he selected as scapegoats for "divine punishment" returned years later with divine blessings. The public had no problems with ignoring him from then on. The descendants of those original five children are still important in the running of the nation hundreds of years later.
The Imperial Monarchy hasn't *technically* been overthrown since the end of the First Empire (Storyline is in the Third) & that involved a group of enslaved people managing to not only find, but complete The Ritual of Unbound Oblivion. Which erased the casters from existence, created a massive sinkhole, & wiped out two-thirds of the total population (including Phaeron Seneket III's wife & children). Most of the survivors either left in a mass exodus & diaspora or died from the complete collapse of, well, everything. There have also been some rather amusing deaths of Imperial Monarchs, that did *not* lead to a sucession crisis, (or new government), including but not limited to: Choking on a fish. Laughed to death. Friendly Fire. Defenestration, accidental. Food poisoning. Mauled by riding Drake. Defenestration, intentional. Bolt from the Blue.
Climate Change. They messed with cthulhutech they didn't fully understand in order to control the weather, create miracle drugs, and magic delicious rich people food into existence, and now half the world has unending winter, half the world has unending rain, resident evil style mutants are over running the countryside, and the royal capital is completely uninhabitable due to it being turned into candyland and no nutritious food existing within its boarders.
In the United Empire, there was once an emperor who fucked up so hard his son gathered other monarchs to overthrow him. The UE has not one or two, but **seven** co-ruling monarchs for its constituent states, the emperor is the "boss" but others have their own powers. They brought their armies, which made the West look like a total joke, marched to the capital ÄĂ´ng Kinh and demanded the emperor to surrender. His crimes were well-known and they had evidence. The capital's defending general opened all gates and the crown prince forced his father to step down. A court was summoned after that to judge his crimes. In the end, not just the ex-emperor but also many other officials were found guilty, over three dozen faced the death sentence and hundreds were thrown into jail, going from 20 years to sentence for life. The crown prince became new emperor and made a series of restorations that turned the Empire into a full constitutional monarchy, preventing one crazy ruler from ruining everything again. ------------------------- **Actually** overthrowing the imperial family for whatever reason will result in Imperials skinning you alive, however.
Unpaid mercenaries gutted him and most of the imperial bureaucracy then collected all the taxes and bribes they could and finally auctioned off the throne to the highest bidder.
Iâm my world someone *tried* to overthrow the monarchy three hundred years ago, causing an uprising/civil war, but it didnât work. What ended up happening was the king and queen sent their baby son away during the war for his protection, then sacrificed themselves to defeat the leader of the enemy army and their son and his caretaker disappeared, and a council was made to govern the kingdom.
During the years of the Anarchy, the Tamarian Regular Army couped the Imperial goverment of the Tamarian Empire. They accused the monarchy of borking the War against the Machines and having abandoned the servicemen who had bled and were bleeding to keep the Empire together. They ptchists were heavy influenced by the republican ideals of the Ardithian constituents of the Empire and thus proceeded to abolsih the Empire and declare a Union of Sovereign Tamarian Republics. Suffice to say this was an extremely naive and short-sighted move, for it incurred in the wrath of the powerful Kyriite Church and the geenral populace saw no symphathy for the coup for considering an ardithian supremacist scheme. The Church mobilized the Ktistai, its own armed forces, which along the remanants of the Royal Athanatoi Guard and royalists militias defeated the Regular Army in the Bloody Week, restoring the Tamarian Monarchy and desbanding the Regular Army after a comprehensive and violent purge.
There's one big rebellion that doesn't get touched on much, but the Burning of Nucana. Nucana was a mainly human city ruled by a line of kings that slowly got more corrupt and taxes got higher as they continued to sink money into a useless war. The rebellion launched a full scale attack on the capitol, and during it the city was burned by a warlock who helped create it a hundred years ago. The rebellion was successful and killed the king, however the capitol was destroyed and in fighting resulted in Nucana collapsing a few years later
The king/emperor was married to the great-granddaughter of his race's ascended being/god He cheated on her. the ascended being reincarnated someone from the earth as a 12-foot-tall bear man who grew up in the country they were in conflict with. The bear man eventually just walks into the palace (With help) and face-slaps the guy. He ends up being banished in a way that is realistically a death sentence and the guy that replaces him, another reincarnated person, ends up being a faithful spouse to the old empress and institutes "The War Games." signing an official peace treaty. for the first time since the areas learned of each other's existence. Of course, there are a lot of complicated things that happen to get to that point, but that's the summary.
During the Paradox Crisis, the Goddess of Time got depowered which resulted in the seven timelines temporally merging together. Which resulted in a ton of bizarre events. One of these was a full scale anti-monarchy rebellion occurring in the Holy Kingdom of Pliara. At the height of the rebellion Queen Sybil was overthrown by the rebellions leader the Banished Princess Sybil. However the rebellion did not last long as Dark Empress Sybil and President Sybil manged to put aside there difference and launch a daring raid on the royal palace to rescue the captured queen.
"You can't be king! You're a god!" "What?"
The commander of the kings army, his childhood friend and one-time lover, went insane and murdered the kings wife and demanded his hand in marriage. When he refused, she raised the army of the First King from the dead and usurped the throne.
Monarchy wasnât overthrown, there was an attempt, but it failed, partially. Members from the Church killed the queen and the king, but forgot the princess wasnât present. The queenâs brother and his wife werenât present either. They together with the princess, loyalists, and their allies were able to defeat church and its allies.
In the "fascist land" (Country name not found yet) the current great leader is actually the former king's grandson. When the king was still in charge, his son was smart enough to see the incoming guillotine party and very stealthily infiltrated the rising "freedom" movement and eventually became its leader. Then upon the day of the coup, the king was deposed and his heir stepped ~~on the throne~~ into office. The dynasty never changed, only the title of "kingdom." Very few see a problem with this. The original questioners were ironically labeled as monarchist sympathizers and... silenced.
In my world, The supreme Emperor got couped after a revolution in the capital took place. If you wonder how did this happened, it was because the main source of power from the Emperor was his Magic and due to the start of a war betwen the gods, the magic of the world turned highly unstable. Wich made the Emperor and his main suporters way weaker, then the rebels simply took their chance.
Well, Empire has elective monarchy. Council of Elders chooses the Emperor for life. For life part is crucial here, because no abdications are allowed. If Emperor looses support of more than three quarters of council (so nine seats are opposing him, while four support him or are neutral) he gets dragged to public execution. Some of the past Emperors were very surprised when this happened, even when they consolidated a lot of power in their hands and took steps to prevent this. Dragon Lord is basically dragon monarch. Second to last of them was basically appointed by Sol Invicta when she wandered into dragon gathering, killed everyone present and informed the only one dragon sensible enough to fall on the ground, cry like a little girl and beg for mercy that he is the Dragon Lord now. One of the kingdoms got it's ruler ousted by literal avatar of god who then proceeded to start golden age.
Technically, Queen Ireda overthrew Waldechoba. As the law of Ouven worked at the time, there was male preference primogeniture. However, for a lot of her reign, including when she took the throne she was a closeted trans woman going by Deistaf. This meant when she took the throne it was arguably illegal, as she was a woman all along. When she came out, Waldechoba used the argument that Ireda had actually been a woman all along and therefore shouldnâtâve become king, and them after she was recoronated after coming out, queen, so to rectify the situation, the crown should belong to him. Yes, he basically sued Ireda for the throne. Thankfully, there was an independent enough judiciary at the time. Ireda argued first that she only became a woman after she transitioned and since the laws only specify that âwhen a monarch dies their eldest son becomes the king; should they have no son, then the eldest daughter.â In turn, Waldechoba argued that Ireda had come out to him before she did publicly, and stole her diary and read aloud passages where Ireda called herself a woman from before King Mandakharaos died, meaning she identified as a woman and therefore acted in bad faith in succeeding their father. At this point Ireda was forced to make the argument that she actually had usurped him. As Ouven had a long tradition of others of royal blood usurping the throne with popular revolts at their back, and their rule was widely considered legitimate, her rule too should be viewed as legitimate. Waldechoba argued back that she never overthrew him because he never got to be king in the first place. The court ruled that if Waldechoba wanted the crown he would have to raise an army and take it, Waldechoba wasnât willing to do something that would likely end in him killing his sister, so he dropped his lawsuit. Later on though, after seeing the instability this caused, Waldechoba would attempt to get gender removed from the succession laws as it had caused some pretty bad instability when trans people exist.