Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190728162007

We don't actually know anything about the Zirantian royal family other than that Kanfour was the current head.

We don't know how long he's been reigning or whether or not it has been for the entirety of the nation's existence. He might be the founder. He might be a random mage who involved himself in politics after walking the Tower. He might have been a younger scion of of the ruling family, for example a younger brother of a previous monarch who felt he was "surrounded by idiots" and wanted to be king himself, who subsequently used Tower magic to become powerful and seize the throne after contriving to get his brother killed in a freak wildabeast stampede accident.

We don't know how Zirantian succession works, although Uyae mentioned that the upper floors were the home of the king and his family, so if the succession is hereditary, the likelihood is that the immediate heirs are also dead. It's also quite possible that the monarchy is elective, either by the legislature or the voting public.