Talk:Karchess Crim/@comment-4188031-20131002005918/@comment-6192846-20131002012520

Perhaps you should be reading up on Maruchiusu and Yufina. ;P He was adopted into the family through the marriage because the Marlon king had no sons and Beelzenia wanted allies instead of enemies; so when Yufina's father suddenly died, Maruchiusu inherited the throne as king.

While this basically made them an indirect vassal to Beelzenia, politicians preferred that to being taken over by Lioness, which was part of the reason they wanted to have ties to the Beelzenian Empire and its royal family. The legitimacy argument is why Kachess' coup seems to have been successful (if Story of Evil is any indication of its result).