You can do this by only giving council positions to holders of cities, churches, clergy, theocracies and republics within your empire as they are disqualified from being choices for candidates. The best method of achieving this is to restrict the options available. First of all, in the Byzantium Empire Government system it is easy to manipulate the election candidates available to make sure the list of possible choices is restricted to only your bloodline and family so that when elections occur, you will assume the new identity soon as your current character dies. So judging by these points it’s easy to figure out the best way to approach the system.
Now I personally struggled to understand how the succession worked when I first got into this game and it can be a little daunting to new players so hopefully after reading this quick guide you too will be able to keep your family on the throne! For anyone new to the game post HF release, it makes the empire extremely frustrating to play, however hopefully this guide can help new players come to grips and even love the new succession system. With Holy Fury came changes to how Byzantine succession works.