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Ancestral Weapon: Receiving a weapon once carried by an ancestor.
Forging The Will: A will's contents have been tampered with.
Game Between Heirs: The inheritance is left up to a game or puzzle.
Heir Club for Men: There must always be a male heir.
Hidden Backup Prince: A member of the royal family is raised as a commoner and has to step up if the entire family is wiped.
If You Die I Call Your Stuff: Making a claim of one's possessions when they're about to do something extremely risky.
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: A minor character hands the McGuffin to the heroes as he lays dying.
Inadequate Inheritor: The rightful heir is thought unfit for the prospective inheritance.
Insurrectionist Inheritor: The worthy heir is the one who rebelled against, stood up to or even tried to kill the deceased.
Legacy Character: A character whose identity is passed down to them from an older character in the form of a title, job or persona for the newer character to assume.
Lost Will And Testament: The recently deceased's will is missing for some reason.
On One Condition: A condition must be fulfilled in order to obtain the inheritance.
Passed Over Inheritance: The deceased leaves his belongings not to his closest family, but someone completely unexpected and usually not related.
Personal Effects Reveal: Going through the belongings of the recently deceased.
Pet Heir: A pet inherits a large fortune.
Rebel Prince: He does or wants to reject his royal inheritance.
Royalties Heir: Someone is rich because a family member invented something profitable and well-known.
Silly Will: The bequests and conditions of the will are nonsense, made to screw around with the heirs.
Spare to the Throne: A second child, usually unprepared, has to rule in a position of power because the firstborn was killed.
Tontine: A group of people take one or more collectively owned items of worth and put it in trust. The last surviving member of the group will then receive the items.
Unexpected Inheritance: An inheritance coming out of nowhere, usually from a family member who wasn't very close.
Video Wills: Leaving a parting message in the form of a recording.
Where Theres A Will Theres A Sticky Note: The will is not made in the form of a legal document but in a much more casual fashion.