INHERITANCE family tree: the dead in grey, 'No heir' warning

About this game

Developer: Mohawk Games · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The dynasty as a data structure you can grieve over: Old World's family tree greys out the dead, stamps a skull on their cards and leaves their AUC lifespans closed in brackets, while the living king and queen sit in colour at the bottom with an open-ended '[131 AUC - ]'. Every card compresses a life into name, dates, four stat icons and one archetype word, Zealot, Diplomat, Schemer, Commander, the same two-to-four-word character shorthand the Court Members panel uses. And the panel at the left turns genealogy into a decision: CURRENT HEIR reads 'No heir' in warning amber, the current law is Primogeniture, and the button under it is CHANGE LAWS, succession is not a report, it is a to-do. The trailer pan crops the ancestor row and the header (disclosed in the elements); the tree itself is complete in frame. Frame at about 1:46 in the Announcement Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0042 at 105.72s) inspected at full resolution in this prep.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-panel side-panel panel-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tree / web Portrait Nameplate Map Marker Resource bar

Screen inventory

• left, the INHERITANCE panel states the problem in three lines: CURRENT HEIR, No heir (in amber); CURRENT LAW, Primogeniture; and a full-width CHANGE LAWS button, the succession crisis and its legal lever on one card
• the tree itself: portrait cards joined by pale lines over the dimmed world map, each card carrying a name, an AUC lifespan in brackets, a four-icon stat row and an archetype footer, QUEEN LAMASSANI [105 AUC - 131 AUC], THE FOUNTAINHEAD [78 AUC - 131 AUC], ZEALOT; KING CONSORT KUDUR-ENLIL [70 AUC - 134 AUC], DIPLOMAT; ABIL-SIN [66 AUC - 117 AUC], SCHEMER; ZMORROD [61 AUC - 125 AUC], COMMANDER
• death is a rendering state: the deceased are desaturated to grey and capped with a small skull marker on the card's top edge, while the living couple at the bottom, KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR [131 AUC - ] and QUEEN CONSORT ALITTUM, are in full colour with gold and red nameplates and a crown node on their connector
• the generation above is present but cropped by the trailer's pan: four ancestor cards (JUDGE, JUDGE, HERO, JUDGE) run across the top edge, and the screen's INHERITANCE header at top centre is partly overlapped by the resource bar (16,073 +364; 687 +42; 1,235 +18; 400 +89; 2/7), disclosed, the tree and panel are fully legible

Top 3 colors

#251e16 24%#0c1317 21%#393428 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Mohawk Games / Hooded Horse, Old World screenshot: Old World - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: scene-change survivor v0_0042.png (105.72s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080) in this prep; keeper file inheritance-family-tree.png is a byte copy of that survivor

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-21); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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