section_path: Succession/Other ways of succession/Succession crisis
section_name: Succession crisis
paragraph_text: Succession crisis
  
  In cases of succession challenges, it can be instrumental for pretenders to secure or install legitimacy through the above, for example proof of accession like insignia, through treaties or a claim of a divine mandate to rule (e.g. by Hong Xiuquan and his Taiping Heavenly Kingdom).